Civil Servants Sweat Having To Pay For Homes They Can T Move Into

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Cuepacs has called for Putrajaya Holdings and the Public Sector Home Financing Board (LPPSA) to resolve the issue to help the affected civil servants.PETALING JAYA: Beginning this month, Siti (not her real name) will need to start repaying her housing loan amounting to over RM1,000, on top of the rent she and her husband are paying for their present home.
Paying for two homes at a time doesn’t make financial sense for the lower-ranked civil servant, but Siti, like other buyers committed to a civil servant housing scheme in Presint 17, Putrajaya, does not have a choice.
The home she signed up for several years ago is ready and buyers had been informed in late May that they would be able to collect the keys to their new homes, but two days later the total lockdown was announced.
The buyers of the project, known as PPAM Ketumbar, were told that under the lockdown the developer, Putrajaya Holdings, was not allowed to operate as it had not received approval from the international trade and industry ministry (Miti) to do so.
As such, the buyers cannot collect the keys to their homes.
“The PPAM project is for low-ranking civil servants like me with small salaries. I earn less than RM3,000 a month and over RM1,000 will go towards the house loan from the Public Sector Home Financing Board (LPPSA).”
She told FMT she was one of the “luckier” buyers because her husband was working in the private sector so she could still afford it.
“But I have friends who earn less and are single, so the deductions are a lot especially if they have to also pay rent. Some have even had to withdraw money from their Amanah Saham Bumiputera savings.”
Another civil servant who only wanted to be known as Ahmad said he was facing a similar predicament.
“I have to pay RM1,100 for the loan, I do lose out because essentially, I’m paying for nothing. I understand if we cannot get the keys because of the lockdown but if that’s the case we shouldn’t have to repay the loan, not until we can move in.”
When contacted, Cuepacs secretary-general Abdul Rahman Mohd Nordin urged Putrajaya Holdings to allow buyers to collect their keys, noting that the housing and local government ministry had announced that relocation to strata and landed properties is allowed from July 1.
He said the buyers have received a notice of delivery of vacant possession on May 25 and a notice to pay four months advance maintenance fees and sinking fund upon collection of keys from May 28.
“They have paid these fees so they can collect their keys but it’s disappointing that they are unable to.”
“If the situation continues, they will be affected because they have to repay their loans and maintenance fees, while still paying the rent for their present accommodation as well,” he said, adding Cuepacs hopes Putrajaya Holdings and LPPSA can resolve the issue. - FMT

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