Member of Tehran Chamber of Commerce: Four million Tomans for a family of four is not the poverty line, it is the death line

A member of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce delegation reacted to the Deputy Minister of Welfare's statement that the poverty line for a family of four is "four million tomans," saying that four million tomans is not the poverty line for a family, but rather the death line.

Mehrad Ebad told ILNA news agency about the estimate of Dariush Abu Hamza, Deputy Minister of Social Welfare at the Ministry of Cooperatives: "This statement is very different from the previous statistics that were presented, and economic activists who work in the fields of production, import or export no longer trust the statistics that have been given in the last few years."

Referring to the poverty line of 10 million tomans announced by the relief committee, the Deputy Minister of Welfare of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare did not consider this figure correct and said that with this 10 million tomans, 90 percent of Iranians would fall below the poverty line.

Mehrad Ebad, a member of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, has said in this regard that if a family wants to eat meat only a few times a month, they will have to spend several times four million tomans, and if they do not have a home in big cities, they will only have to eat dry bread.

Source: Radio Farda