{"id":89927,"date":"2015-08-22T12:14:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T04:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=89927"},"modified":"2015-08-22T12:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T04:14:03","slug":"pensioners-affected-by-rising-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=89927","title":{"rendered":"Pensioners affected by rising cost of living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUDOS to Tan Sri Dr Sulaiman Mahbobs comment on pensioners (\u0153The plight of our pensioners\u009d \u201d NST, Aug 20). It is timely and I am sure that all pensioners appreciate him for bringing up their plight. Pensioners need to be able to meet the rising cost of living \u201d notwithstanding, of course, those senior government officers and politicians who are re-employed as chairmen of government-linked companies, corporations, boards and institutions for many years after retirement and so can earn a higher salary plus pension.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1PFbZLT\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUDOS to Tan Sri Dr Sulaiman Mahbobs comment on pensioners (\u0153The plight of our pensioners\u009d \u201d NST, Aug 20). It is timely and I am&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89928,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89927\/revisions\/89928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}