The Mejia administration announced that government pay days as of February will be the 10th and 25th of each month. Originally, President Mejia had announced the government would pay on the 15 and 30. Prior to the change, the government had paid once a month, on the 25th. The Banco de Reservas, the government bank in charge of the payments, had requested the payments be rescheduled to the 10th and 25th to avoid bottlenecks. The administrator of the Bank, Manuel Lara Hernández announced the installation of cash card systems for payment of government payrolls in order to save the about RD$12 million cost in paper and personnel of each pay day.
