{"id":124728,"date":"2019-04-02T13:07:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=124728"},"modified":"2019-04-02T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T17:12:12","slug":"government-employees-to-receive-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/02\/government-employees-to-receive-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Government employees to receive increase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dominican-pesos-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124590\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dominican-pesos-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dominican-pesos-Diario-Libre-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of this month, government employees who receive <g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\">minimum<\/g> salary, as well as pensioners, will receive the increases President Danilo Medina had announced on 27 February 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who earn RD$5,117 will now receive RD$10,000 per month, those who earn between RD$10,000 and RD$20,000 per month, will receive a 10% increase, those who earn RD$20,000 to RD$30,000 will have a 5% increase, and the pensioners on the minimum pension of RD$5,117 or less will see their pensions rise to RD$8,000. Pensioners who have RD$8,000 a RD$20,000 will receive a 10% increase, and those on RD$20,000 to RD$30,000 will have a 5% increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Economy Minister Isidoro Santana, this will cost the government an additional RD$4.6 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/almomento.net\/empleados-publicos-pensionados-y-jubilados-recibiran-este-mes-aumento-prometio-medina\/\">Al&nbsp;Momento<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 April 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of this month, government employees who receive minimum salary, as well as pensioners, will receive the increases President Danilo Medina had announced on 27 February 2019. Those who earn RD$5,117 will now receive RD$10,000 per month, those who earn between RD$10,000 and RD$20,000 per month, will receive a 10% increase, those who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/02\/government-employees-to-receive-increase\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124827,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124728\/revisions\/124827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}