The Guyana government says public servants will from January 1 next year, receive the promised increase in salaries.
Last year, 54,000 public workers, including teachers, members of the disciplined services, and government pensioners benefitted from a 6.5% retroactive salary increase, placing an additional GUY$7.5 billion in disposable income.
Members of the Disciplined Services and civilian members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) also received a one-month tax-free bonus.
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said the increase will be paid in the public servants’ December salary, adding, “it will be before the end of the yea”.
He said in addition, they will receive the GUY$100,000 cash grant, previously announced by President Irfaan Ali.
Meanwhile, the initial distribution process of the GUY$100,000 one-off cash grant is expected to result in about 300,000 Guyanese receiving their cash grants before the end of the year.
“The technical team has said that they can get about 300,000 persons registered before the end of the year. They told me they can cut about maybe 20,000 cheques per day. They have built a system now to do that,” Jagdeo said.
Public servants and pensioners are priority targets, with the government aiming to distribute cheques to these persons before the end of the year.
“We had already explained that it will take us about five months to complete the task. We are trying to hurry this up so that we could at least get the public servants and the pensioners completed before the end of the year. We may be able to do that and then a number of other people who are registered,” Jagdeo added.
He said while some persons may receive their cash grants in the new year, he is nonetheless assuring that every eligible Guyanese will receive the cash grant, as promised.
On Wednesday the National Assembly approved a GUY$30.5 billion supplementary provision for the distribution of the cash grant to every citizen 18 years and above.
The government has announced several measures to govern this initiative with the first step being the registration exercises where each community will have a registration schedule, with the second stage being the verification of the registrants, followed by the cutting of cheques.
A distribution schedule will then be published, and these cheques will be disbursed in the same locations where registration occurred —CMC
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Publish date : 2024-12-03 15:23:00
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