KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak who is also Finance Minister announced today that the 2016 Budget has a special aid allocation of RM500 for civil servants. He said that the allocation involves 1.3 million government employees to the tune of almost RM1 billion and will be disbursed in January next year.
In the same time, Najib said in his speech that to lighten the burden of the cost of living for all civil servants, the government has agreed to a special aid allocation of RM500 to all civil servants. He said this during the tabling of the 2016 Budget in the Dewan Rakyat.
Besides that, he also announced that a minimum starting salary in the civil service at RM1,200 a month, which will benefit 60,000 civil servants and a minimum pension rate was set at RM950 a month for pensioners with at least 25 years of service, which will benefit almost 50,000 pensioners.
