<p>Civil servants will receive a RM500 special aid pay-out next year, the same amount they got this year.</p><p>Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said the special aid will be given to those in Grade 56 and below.</p><p>For Budget 2019, this was only given to those in Grade 54 and below.</p><p>Meanwhile, pensioners will also get RM250 next year just as they did this year.</p><p>The special aid is given in lieu of bonuses to civil servants.</p><p>The last bonus pay-out civil servants received was a half-month bonus announced under Budget 2015.</p><p>In Budget 2016 and 2017, this was changed to a "special assistance" of RM500.</p><p>Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak then raised the amount to RM1,000 in Budget 2018.</p><p>Besides these annual "bonuses" announced in the budget speeches, all civil servants also typically get a Hari Raya festive bonus.</p><p>In 2019, this was RM450.</p><p class="">

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<p>For civil servants, this has been expanded to include Grade 55 and 56.</p>