Youth chief Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki said the study, to be carried out by its research secretariat, was aimed at understanding what the public wanted from EPF.

“This research will be transparent and unbiased. Its findings will help identify whether there is a pressing need for the government to approve another withdrawal,” he said in a Facebook post today.

He also said the research findings would be forwarded to the government and made public.

“I would like to ask the public to fill up the questionnaire, which won’t take more than a minute.”

Asyraf said allowing contributors to withdraw another RM10,000 to tide over their present difficulties would not have much of an impact on EPF and would not require it to liquidate any of its foreign assets.

He said EPF received RM6.5 billion in monthly contributions, coming up to RM78 billion annually. This would cover the RM25 billion in withdrawals contributors may make under the i-Citra programme.

EPF yesterday announced gross investment income of RM48.02 billion for the first nine months of last year, an increase of 7.7%, or RM3.42 billion, from the RM44.60 billion recorded in the same period in 2020.