Following the Adjustment in the Civil Servant Salary Coefficient, There Was an Increase, but It Still Doesn't Come Close to the Minimum Wage or the Poverty Line: Even the Aid Is in Need of 'Assistance'!

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Following the adjustment to the civil servant salary coefficient in July, monthly social assistance payments were also increased. However, despite the increases, social assistance payments remain well below both the poverty line and the minimum wage.

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The expectation of an interim increase in the minimum wage resurfaced in July after the salary increases for civil servants and retirees were finalized.