Politicians receive high pensions

 But the scheme has exclusions with a much greater payment for lawmakers and the government members. The privileges start even before the retirement age. Based on the supplementary law for an MP, member of government or high rank constitutional official, if he will change job and if he works somewhere else with a lower wage, he would benefit the difference from the insurance scheme.

This is the first privilege, followed by the right to receive pension at 55 years of age. According to the law, a former MP or high rank official that leaves duty at 55 has the right to receive a pension that is equal to 50% of his wage, for three years. In average it would be 60.000 ALL for three years.

There are more privileges when these officials are past the official pension age. Besides the normal pension, which is received by any other citizen, MPs, government members and high rank officials have the right to receive additional pensions that are based on their time working in a government post and that could reach 75% of the wage, or even to 120.000 monthly.

If the Prime Minister would retire today, he would receive a pension of 170.000 ALL, seven times more than the maximal pension of a citizen, and 25 times more than a retired pensioner who lives in villages. The legal changes that provide these privileges have all received full votes in Parliament. The MPs are discussing to lift immunity these days, and the Prime Minister said that this would make them equal to the citizens. But immunity is not the only distinction that they have with the citizens.

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