Islamabad: The caretaker government has issued a notice to increase the EOBI pension, which will be effective from the month of July.
Jawad Sohrab, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Manpower, issued a notification on social media site X and said that the pension amount has been increased from 8500 to 10 thousand rupees after a 17% increase from July 2023.
EOBI Pension Increase Notification is finally released. It was slightly delayed but it increased the pension from the earlier Rs 8,500 to Rs 10,000 (a 17 percent increase) from July 2023. EOBI will disburse increments from September 2023 with arrears for July and August 2023.… pic.twitter.com/lI3Dg60EYx
— Jawad Sohrab (@JawadSohrab) September 8, 2023
The notification states that the arrears of July and August will be paid to the pensioners along with September.
The Special Assistant wrote that the increase in pension is a small but valuable increase for millions of pensioners across the country.
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