{"id":113394,"date":"2021-04-10T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=113394"},"modified":"2021-04-10T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T20:55:08","slug":"low-income-families-to-receive-rs-5000-allowance-for-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/04\/10\/low-income-families-to-receive-rs-5000-allowance-for-festive-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-income families to receive Rs. 5,000 allowance for festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ada Deran<\/em><\/span>a<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Steps have been taken to provide a cash allowance of Rs. 5,000 to Samurdhi recipients and low-income families, says State Minister of Samurdhi, Household Economy, Micro Finance, Self-Employment and Business Development Shehan Semasinghe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision has been taken in view of the upcoming Sinhala and Tamil New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samurdhi officers have been instructed to take necessary measures to hand over the cash allowance to relevant families prior to the Sinhala and Tamil New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is jointly initiated by the Presidential Task Force for Economic Revival and Poverty Eradication and the Department of Samurdhi Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>UPDATE: Reports revealed that the aforementioned allowance for low-income families is expected to be handed over on the 12th and 13th of April through Samurdhi banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ada Derana Steps have been taken to provide a cash allowance of Rs. 5,000 to Samurdhi recipients and low-income families, says State Minister of Samurdhi, Household Economy, Micro Finance, Self-Employment and Business Development Shehan Semasinghe. The decision has been taken in view of the upcoming Sinhala and Tamil New Year. Samurdhi officers have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category--19-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}