All bar three retired top politicians decline to receive a government pension
Sunday, August 11, 2013 @ 6:02 PM
A TOTAL of 54 MPs have waived their pension entitlement or chosen to stop receiving it.
According to Member of Parliament for the leading PP party, Rafael Merino, any president, vice-president, minister or Secretary of State has the right to a government pension when they retire.
But he says that 35 former Secretaries of State, 15 ex-ministers, one ex-president and three retired vice-presidents have declined to take theirs.
Only three are now claiming a pension.
This is said to be due to the fact that austerity measures brought in a year ago meant that a government pension was no longer compatible with any other income of any description, meaning those in receipt of it would have to give up any other form of earnings.
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