<\/p>\n
Minister of finance Ericah Shafudah has announced a N$100 pension increase effective 1 April.<\/em><\/p>\n This means pensioners will now be earning N$1 700 compared to the current N$1 600.<\/p>\n She made the announcement during the tabling of the national budget on Thursday.<\/p>\n The increase will be financed through the N$12.9 billion allocated to the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n “The Ministry of Finance received a N$12.9 billion allocation for the 2026\/27 financial year, of which N$447 million is to cater for a N$100…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Minister of finance Ericah Shafudah has announced a N$100 pension increase effective 1 April. This means pensioners will now be earning N$1 700 compared to the current N$1 600. She made the announcement during the tabling of the national budget on Thursday. The increase will be financed through the N$12.9 billion allocated to the Ministry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6721,29077,4706,724,257,10042,8609,254],"class_list":["post-225538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-increase","tag-n100","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pensioners","tag-receive","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n
South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"