Cabinet mulls pension hike for workers in government

By Chung Li-hua and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source The Cabinet is mulling a proposed hike to wages and pensions of government workers, including educators, civil servants and military service members, as part of next year’s general budget, officials said yesterday.Starting next year, government workers’ salaries would increase by 4 percent and monthly pension allowances would increase by 6 percent, should the Executive Yuan and legislature approve the budget, officials told a post-Cabinet meeting news conference.The Cabinet would deliberate the inclusion of the proposal into the budget on Aug. 20, they said. A person fans out NT$1,000 bills in an undated photograph. Photo: Taipei Times The Executive Yuan expects to formally approve the measures