Wan Azizah, who is also Women, Family and Community Development Minister, said the 2% contribution by the husbands to their non-working wives would be taken from the 11% they contributed to their own EPF account from their salary.

“It’s 2% from the (current) 11%, no additional deduction,” she told a news conference during a visit to a home for old folk and the poor.

She said this in response to a statement by the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) on May 24, opposing the proposal.

Wan Azizah said officials of her ministry and EPF would meet on Friday to discuss the mechanism to deduct part of a husband’s contribution to be transferred to his wife.

Asked about the cases of husbands who were homemakers and men with more than one wife, she said this would also be discussed.

Meanwhile, Wan Azizah denied rumours that linked her eldest daughter Nurul Izzah to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Muhammad V.

“Don’t listen to rumours,” she said.

Nurul Izzah, the MP for Permatang Pauh and PKR vice president, today also denied a viral report that claimed she would be marrying the king.