Increased Samurdhi assistance from today

Steps have been taken to increase the Samurdhi allowance from February and the allowances will be available from Samurdhi banks from today, said State Minister Semasinghe.

He further said the government has decided to increase the Samurdhi allowance by 28% for Samurdhi beneficiaries.

He said that the government had prepared in the budget to provide Rs. 50,000 million for Samurdhi beneficiaries’ allowances in the overall budget and that with this increase, an additional 15,000 million rupees will be spent.