Dear Editor,
In the 2013 and 2014 national budgets the Minister of Finance made provision for a subsidy of twenty thousand dollars for 2013 and thirty thousand dollars for 2014 for old age pensioners’ electricity.
It is now the 1st day of August 2014 and we the pensioners in Regions Two and Three have not received any subsidy as yet, even though we became old age pensioners in July 2013 and our claims were submitted to the GPL Anna Regina Branch in January-February 2014.
We are wondering if this will ever be paid, or whether this is another election promise to secure votes come local government elections or general and regional elections whenever these are called – if at all.
I am looking forward to a comment from the Minister of Finance and the General Manager of GPL.
Yours faithfully,
M Rajkumar