{"id":14214,"date":"2025-09-10T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/14214\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:07:07","slug":"benefit-and-pension-rates-increase-proposed-in-guernsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/14214\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefit and pension rates increase proposed in Guernsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Proposals to increase pension and benefit rates in Guernsey by 4.2% have been put forward by the Committee for Employment and Social Security (ESS).  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If approved by deputies, it will mean the weekly payout for the States pension would increase from \u00a3280.32 to \u00a3292.09 per week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Changes to how long-term care is funded have also been put forward, which could see residential care benefits increase from \u00a3818.00 to \u00a3837.62 per week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Deputies are expected to vote on these proposals in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Proposals to increase pension and benefit rates in Guernsey by 4.2% have been put forward by the Committee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-14214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}