{"id":67433,"date":"2020-07-02T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=67433"},"modified":"2020-07-02T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T09:30:09","slug":"govt-approves-eobi-pension-increase-by-pkr-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-approves-eobi-pension-increase-by-pkr-2000.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt approves EOBI pension increase by PKR 2,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The federal government on Wednesday approved of a PKR 2,000 increment in the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) pension for senior citizen across the country, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/eobi-pension-annuity-increase-jan-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EOBI pension annuity to increase from Jan 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The approval was granted during a federal cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan in Islamabad. The decision was made in light of the premier\u2019s earlier announcement back on December 12, 2019 regarding the increase in the minimum pension amount from PKR 6,500 to PKR 8,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/funds-under-eobi-to-be-given-soon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Funds under EOBI to be given soon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aforementioned initiative is another step in fulfilling Special Assistant to Prime Minister Zulfi Bukhari\u2019s December 2019 promise to raise the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/eobi-scandal-notices-issued-to-sellers-for-returning-the-land.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pension<\/a> rate to PKR 15,000 by the end of the incumbent government\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The federal government on Wednesday approved of a PKR 2,000 increment in the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) pension for senior citizen across the country, according to news sources. Read: EOBI pension annuity to increase from Jan 1 The approval was granted during a federal cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan in Islamabad. The decision was made in light of the premier\u2019s earlier announcement back on December 12, 2019 regarding the increase in the minimum pension amount from PKR 6,500 to PKR 8,500. Read: Funds under EOBI to be given soon The aforementioned initiative is another step in fulfilling Special Assistant to Prime Minister Zulfi Bukhari\u2019s December 2019 promise to raise the pension rate to PKR 15,000 by the end of the incumbent government\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":64102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017,15020],"tags":[33447,33446],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"category-social-developments","9":"tag-employees-old-age-benefits-institution-eobi-pension","10":"tag-govt-approves-eobi-pension-increase-by-pkr-2","11":"cat-15017-id","12":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt approves EOBI pension increase by PKR 2,000 - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The government approved of a PKR 2,000 increment in the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) pension for senior citizen across the country,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-approves-eobi-pension-increase-by-pkr-2000.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt approves EOBI pension increase by PKR 2,000 - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The government approved of a PKR 2,000 increment in the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) pension for senior citizen across the country,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-approves-eobi-pension-increase-by-pkr-2000.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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