The Hon. Mahinda Jayasinghe – Deputy Minister
Mahinda Jayasinghe clarified that public servants appointed from 1 January 2016 had been moved from the former pension system to a contributory pension scheme under appointment letters, but that scheme had not been implemented by any government. He stated that the current Budget proposes to restore full pension rights to those employees, equivalent to earlier public servants.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Presiding Member, a brief clarification. Under their Government, from 01.01.2016, the pension was in fact abolished and a contributory pension introduced, as stated in appointment letters. Yet no government since then operationalized the contributory scheme. Therefore, in this Budget we announced full pension rights, like earlier public servants, for all appointed on or after 01.01.2016.
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Cite as: The Hon. Mahinda Jayasinghe – Deputy Minister. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 19 November 2025. No. 22931. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/14182