{"id":298338,"date":"2025-11-21T22:01:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298338\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T22:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:01:29","slug":"early-pension-payments-and-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298338\/","title":{"rendered":"Early pension payments and bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has decided to bring forward the payment of December pensions, with the respective Christmas bonus, according to a publication shared by the Executive on social media, following the example of what happened last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This means that pensioners will receive the amounts in question on December 5.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, pension payments take place on the 8th of each month. The government justifies the early payment by stating that this day coincides with a public holiday:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;December pensions and the Christmas bonus will be paid earlier: on Friday, December 5. The early payment is due to the fact that December 8, the usual payment day, coincides with a public holiday,&#8221; reads the publication shared by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the payment is &#8220;made before the long weekend,&#8221; the government emphasises.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, pensioners of the Caixa Geral de Aposenta\u00e7\u00f5es (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cga.pt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CGA<\/a>) will receive their Christmas bonus along with their pension on November 19, according to the calendar published on the institution&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government has decided to bring forward the payment of December pensions, with the respective Christmas bonus, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-298338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}