No initiatives have been taken to suspend the Pensions.
A delay will also not be experience in the payment of pensions. This was emphasized by Pensions Director General S.S. Hettiarachchi, addressing a news conference at this Department.
The Pensions Director General said that there is no issue in the payment of pensions. The pensions are being paid on the scheduled date. Around 11 billion rupees was being paid monthly as pensions.
The annual expenditure incurred by the Pensions Department for the payment of pensions is in the region of 150 Billion Rupees. In addition the number of persons going on retirement annually is around 30 thousand. But actually they estimated it to be between 18 and 20 thousand. However, he said by now it has doubled. He asserted that an issue has not surfaced in the payment of pensions.
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