{"id":15147,"date":"2025-09-02T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editorv3.mykasih.com.my\/2025\/09\/sara-transactions-hit-rm110m-in-two-days\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T08:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:00:04","slug":"sara-transactions-hit-rm110m-in-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/editorv3.mykasih.com.my\/ms\/2025\/09\/sara-transactions-hit-rm110m-in-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"SARA transactions hit RM110m in two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-5988\" class=\"post-5988 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-media-coverage\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 1): Transactions under the Sumbangan Asas Rahmah (SARA) aid programme hit RM110 million in just two days, with more than 1.7 million recipients making purchases nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said that as of 9.30pm on Monday, over 900,000 recipients had spent RM60 million nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The MOF said MyKasih\u2019s system capacity was boosted after Sunday\u2019s (Aug 31) surge, enabling 20% more transactions to be processed on the second day.<\/p>\n<p>However, congestion was still reported at some hypermarkets in urban areas during peak hours, between 1pm and 2.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo manage the situation, MyKasih personnel have been stationed at hypermarkets to resolve issues directly and assist traders,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>It also advised the public to shop outside peak hours, particularly in the mornings on weekdays, to ensure smoother transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The one-off RM100 Sara credit channelled directly to recipients\u2019 MyKad is valid until Dec 31, and can be used at more than 7,300 registered retail outlets nationwide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<nav class=\"navigation post-navigation\" role=\"navigation\">\n<div class=\"nav-previous\"><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 1): Transactions under the Sumbangan Asas Rahmah (SARA) aid programme hit RM110 million in just two days,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-coverage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/editorv3.mykasih.com.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/editorv3.mykasih.com.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/editorv3.mykasih.com.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorv3.mykasih.com.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorv3.mykasih.com.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/editorv3.mykasih.com.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorv3.mykasih.com.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/editorv3.mykasih.com.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorv3.mykasih.com.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editorv3.mykasih.com.my\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}