Government Is Rewarding Civil Servants With RM500 Ramadan Assistance

Government pensioners will receive RM250!

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Civil servants have a cause for celebration as the government just announced that all government employees will be receiving a RM500 special Aidilfitri assistance this year

The fasting month started on the 6th of June and Hari Raya Aidilfitri this year is expected to fall on the 6th of July.

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Adding to that, a total of 743,000 government pensioners too will receive an amount of RM250 to help them during the Ramadan and Raya month.

The civil servants and pensioners will receive their Aidilfitri assistance on 13 June.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said that the financial assistance for government pensioners would be given as a token of appreciation for their years of service and effort.

"The government hopes that the special financial assistance will help ease the financial burden of civil servants and pensioners as they prepare for Aidilfitri 2016," said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak when announcing the news.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak

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Najib added to the string of happy news by informing that all civil servants will receive their annual salary increment in July under a financial allocation of RM1.1 billion

While we are on the topic of local civil servants, the Melaka state government announced earlier this year that they are only looking to hire less qualified people:

Under the 11th Malaysia Plan in 2015, the government came up with policies to increase efficiency and productivity among civil servants. The 'clean up' process led to some shocking discoveries about government servants:

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