{"id":99493,"date":"2020-03-01T16:49:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T23:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99493"},"modified":"2020-03-01T16:49:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T23:49:38","slug":"no-pension-for-64-mps-if-parliament-is-dissolved-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/01\/no-pension-for-64-mps-if-parliament-is-dissolved-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"No pension for 64 MPs if parliament is dissolved tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>If the parliament of Sri Lanka is dissolved at midnight tomorrow (02) as planned, 64 parliamentarians will lose out on their pensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Member of Parliament must complete a five-year tenure to receive pension rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the United National Party (UNP) parliamentarians will lose the most pension rights, with 36 MPs in total who might lose the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, 21 United People\u2019s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) MPs, 6 Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MPs, and one JVP MP lose their pension rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gazette Extraordinary pertaining to the dissolution of the parliament is set to be published at midnight tomorrow, government sources told Ada Derana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana If the parliament of Sri Lanka is dissolved at midnight tomorrow (02) as planned, 64 parliamentarians will lose out on their pensions. A Member of Parliament must complete a five-year tenure to receive pension rights. Accordingly, the United National Party (UNP) parliamentarians will lose the most pension rights, with 36 MPs in total [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99493","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=99493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}