Pensioners’ problems will be looked into

Sandasen Marasinghe and Irangika Range

Public Administration and Home Affairs Deputy Minister Vijaya Dahanayake yesterday told Parliament that action would be taken immediately to sort out the problems related to payments of all pensioners in the country.

He said 20,000 new comers are added to the list of pensioners annually and the government spends around Rs.10,000 million per month to make their payments.

There are 515,000 pensioners in the country and the government has agreed to grant for their rights in principal.

The Deputy Minister was answering to an oral question raised by UNP MP Sajith Premadasa.