“We expected to receive the first portion of the budget last month. He said the smaller budget would mean the EEF would have to reduce the amount of financial help it intended to give to cash-strapped students. The amount for the start-up fund is also Bt300 million lower than what the EEF had hoped to get. The EEF estimates that about 1.6 million children need financial help for their studies. The budget for EEF in fiscal 2019, which will start next month, is also half of what the EEF had asked for.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 12, 2018 18:00 UTC