{"id":152518,"date":"2025-09-12T22:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/152518\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T22:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:54:18","slug":"benefit-and-pension-rates-increase-proposed-in-guernsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/152518\/","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":152519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,134],"class_list":["post-152518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}