Dhaka, June 2 -- The 2025-26 budget proposes higher monthly payments for elderly citizens, widows, abused women, people with disabilities and recipients of the mother-and-child support programme.

Finance Advisor Salehuddin Ahmed presented the Tk 7.9 trillion national budget in a televised address on Monday.

He said the plan aims to reduce poverty, narrow social inequality and improve living standards by expanding both the number of beneficiaries and the size of individual payments.

Under the proposal, elderly citizens would receive Tk 650 per month, up from Tk 600.

Payments for widows and abused women would rise from Tk 550 to Tk 650, people with disabilities from Tk 850 to Tk 900, and mothers with children from Tk 800 to Tk 850.

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