{"id":248416,"date":"2025-10-29T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248416\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:08:26","slug":"govt-pledges-pension-voting-system-for-sri-lankans-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248416\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt pledges pension &#038; voting system for Sri Lankans abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-208168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot_20251027_170442_Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism Minister Vijitha Herath says a retirement pension scheme and a voting mechanism will be introduced for Sri Lankans living overseas.<\/p>\n<p>He said steps are already underway with the involvement of the Public Administration Ministry and a special committee has been appointed to create the required legal framework.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister made these remarks today (27) at an event marking the 40th anniversary of the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau. (Newswire)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism Minister Vijitha Herath says a retirement pension scheme and a voting mechanism&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-248416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}