Sri Lanka, Feb. 17 -- Delivering the 2025 Budget speech in Parliament today (17), President Anura Kumara Dissanayake proposed to revise the pensions of all pensioners who retired before 01 January 2020 in three phases, corresponding to the salary scales applicable to the year 2020 as per the Public Administration Circular No. 03/2016.

By considering salaries and benefits entitled to the pensioners, a monthly increase of Rs. 3,000 was implemented immediately after the Presidential election thus resolving the Pension Anomalies of Pensioners who retired before 01 January 2020.

However, the President expressed that a pension anomaly was observed which was created by revising the pensions of the government employees who retired from 2016 - 2...