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Your Saman Halves Itself for 15 Days, Then Stops: The Rule Nobody Explained When Campaign Discounts Ended — and the RM500 Ceiling Coming in 2029
Malaysia stopped running seasonal saman discount campaigns on 1 January 2026. In their place, JPJ and PDRM adopted one standardised nationwide schedule built on a phrase the Transport Minister used at Parliament: "the less you delay, the less you pay". Pay within 15 days and the compound is cut by half. Pay between day 16 and day 30 and it is cut by a third. From day 31 to day 60 you pay the full rate. Past day 61 the file goes to court and the vehicle owner is blacklisted. Six months later, Parliament passed the Road Transport (Amendment) Bill 2026 — the Dewan Rakyat on 24 June 2026, the Dewan Negara on 21 July — raising the maximum compound from RM300 to RM500, raising minimum court fines from RM300 to RM500 as a separate change nobody separates, creating a standalone offence for street racing, and tripling the jail exposure for driving while your licence is suspended. Royal assent came on 30 August 2026, it was gazetted on 15 September 2026 as Act A1794, and the Ministry of Transport announced that it came into force on 16 October 2026. The racing, lookout and suspended-licence penalties apply now. The one change deferred is the RM500 compound ceiling, which starts on 1 January 2029. Here is what changed, what it costs, what is in force today, and the dates that decide which version applies to you.
BUDI95 Is Back to 300 Litres: What the Cap Is Worth This Week, and Exactly What Happens at Litre 301
The BUDI95 quota is back to 300 litres a month. It was cut to 200 on 1 April 2026 and restored on 1 September, after Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced the reversal in his National Day address on 30 August; BUDI Diesel moved with it, to 400 litres for jeep and pick-up owners. The restoration landed just ahead of a sharp rise at the pump: unsubsidised RON95 went from RM3.77 in the first week of September to RM4.57 by 24 September, and is RM4.52 a litre for 1 to 7 October 2026. With BUDI95 still fixed at RM1.99, the government is now paying RM2.53 for every subsidised litre — RM759 a month if you use the whole quota, more than double what the 200-litre cap was worth in August. Here is what the cap is worth, the rules that have not changed (one shared balance for petrol and diesel, litres that expire on the 1st, a RM250 ceiling per transaction), the BUDI Diesel transfer rules that changed on 16 September, and what happens at litre 301: nothing dramatic — the pump simply charges you the unsubsidised price.
The New MyKad Is Here: Issued Since 17 September, Same Day at 40 JPN and UTC Offices, RM10 to Switch, No Touch 'n Go — and Losing Yours Twice Still Costs RM310
Updated 1 October 2026: the new-generation MyKad is finally in people's hands. JPN unveiled what it calls the seventh-generation identity card on 16 September and has issued it in stages since 17 September — on the same day at 40 JPN and UTC offices with their own printing centres, and in about five working days at every other branch. Nobody is being forced to switch: JPN's own FAQ says existing holders need not change just because a new card exists, and advises a change only for KPP, KPT and MyKad without a ghost image. If you do switch, it costs RM10. The new card carries 53 security features against the old card's 23, and it drops one feature Malaysians have used for two decades: it is not a Touch 'n Go card. Lost-card fees on JPN's own pages are unchanged at RM110, RM310 and RM1,010. Below: the 40 same-day offices state by state, who should go and who should not bother, the online replacement portal that now needs MyDigital ID, and how the June-to-August stretch when nobody had the card actually played out.
Renewing Your Malaysian Passport in 2026: The Official Fees, Who Can Actually Use MyOnline Pasport, and Why the Counter Is Faster
The Immigration Department's own rate table puts an adult Malaysian passport at RM200 for five years and RM350 for ten — but children under 12 pay RM100, OKU cardholders pay nothing at all, and losing the book costs RM400 the first time and RM1,200 by the third. The bigger surprise is timing: the department's Client Charter promises a passport in one hour at the counter, against one working day online. Here is what the official pages actually say, including the photo rule that gets applications rejected with no refund.