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    10-Nov-2012

Over JD14m annual pension benefits for former prime ministers, ministers, MPs

 

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Amman -- Annual pension benefits to former heads of government, ministers and parliamentarians totaled JD14.161 million, Minister of Finance Suleiman al Hafez said today, dismissing reports that the amount runs as higher as JD54 million.

 
Hafez said in a statement that the disclosure was part of the government's keenness on an open policy to keep citizens up-to-date on any new measures or policies and promote candor and real public participation in the national responsibility.
 
He was commenting on reports and op-ed articles published recently which pointed to the sum of JD54m in annual salaries and pension benefits that go to former prime ministers, ministers and MPs.
 

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