NewsWhore
01-03-2007, 04:10 PM
The last months of the PRD-led Congress approved nearly one thousand pension packages for former politicians, legislators, siblings of legislators and relatives. The pensions vary in size from RD$3,000 to RD$60,000 per month. According to Listin Diario, several former Senate and Congress employees were also blessed with generous pension plans, despite not having retired. While the article mentioned names and relationships of the more prominent figures receiving these handsome pensions, it also mentioned that pensions of between three and twenty thousand pesos per month were distributed to "ordinary people."
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