New gazette issued for Aswesuma Welfare Payments from January

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Colombo, December 25 (Daily Mirror) - A new Gazette Extraordinary has been issued, outlining the procedure for the payment of monthly benefit allowances to eligible families and individuals under the Aswesuma Welfare Benefit Payment Scheme, effective from January 2025.

This Gazette Notification was issued by the President in accordance with the powers vested in him as the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.

The previous Gazette notification, issued by former President Ranil Wickremesinghe on May 17, 2024, has been revoked by this new notification dated December 21, 2024.

Under the new Gazette notification, the monthly allowance for poor families has been increased from Rs. 8,500 to Rs. 10,000, while the allowance for extremely poor families has been raised from Rs. 15,000 to Rs. 17,500. The allowance amounts for other categories remain unchanged.

The notification proposes monthly relief benefits of Rs. 5,000 for 480,000 transitional families from January to March 2025 and for 480,000 vulnerable families from January to December 2025.

Additionally, Rs. 10,000 will be provided to 960,000 poor families, and Rs. 17,500 to 480,000 extremely poor families, from January 2025 to June 2026. For families with two or fewer members, only half of these benefits will be provided.

The proposed monthly welfare allowances may be subject to slight adjustments based on the estimated number of beneficiary families. As per the Gazette notification, if a family has two or fewer members, they will receive only half of the stated allowance.

The notification further specifies that Rs. 7,500 will be provided monthly to 410,000 differently-abled individuals from January to June 2025. Similarly, Rs. 7,500 will be provided to 50,000 patients with chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDU), and Rs. 3,000 will be allocated monthly to 3,000 elderly citizens during the same period.

The payments specified for differently-abled individuals, CKDU patients and elderly citizens will be distributed from January 2025 to June 2025, inclusive of both months.

All payments to beneficiaries identified through the welfare beneficiary list will be processed under the Aswesuma Welfare Benefit Payment Scheme, effective from January 2025.

Comments - 6

Johan Wednesday, 25 December 2024 11:18 AM

Poor man's President

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Lk Wednesday, 25 December 2024 12:11 PM

One of the most rewarding deeds and steps of this government: In western countries, the wealth is shared with unemployed, sick, disable, and any vulnerable people : Now this western model of social welfare system is shared with many countries: rich and developed countries have many systems to help poor people : This may looks very little but , let it be a humble beginning for wider welfare changes : Let all poor get their due from rich Let our Inland Revues departments develop a good system to collect all taxes from all rich and able people and let this government come up with some system to share wealth with people : No child should die out of poverty in this modern world No family should suffer from poverty in this modern world. No sick or doable person should suffer:

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Srilankan Wednesday, 25 December 2024 12:33 PM

Most child poverty in Srilanka are caused by alcoholism and domestic violence. I personally know many among my farm workers, where the father drinks and abuses the wife and kids. Police turn a blind eye and government should act on it and not throw money Willy nilly

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Arunan K Wednesday, 25 December 2024 12:16 PM

Poor remained poor because lack of opportunity and guidance. Instead of making them stay lazy by giving all these allowances, which the house head mostly squander on liquor, government should investigate how to uplift them. NPP is heading in the failed Socialist path and very soon we will face another disaster, if we are not mindful

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Lk Wednesday, 25 December 2024 12:29 PM

Dear Arunan: I partially agree with you that giving money could make people lazy but not all : some poor families need some incentive and starting up help and don’t think all poor people are lazy and begging : in fact, look at children of rich they are burden and lazy and some of rich children are dump headed : Don’t think helping poor family makes them lazy : look at Chinese model of communist party : they are capitalist and yet with communist idealogy : NPP is not just promoting socialism for sake for socialism but they want to create wealth as capitalism does but don’t let a few politicians loot the money as MR and co did :

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Gunapala Wednesday, 25 December 2024 01:37 PM

Promised to give Rs 10,000 in NPP manifesto but now poor families will only get Rs 1500 increase. Sad!

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