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<\/p>\nServing and former ministers who do not pay back money that was overpaid to them by mistake will not receive their pensions, a Government minister has said.<\/p>\n
Last June, it emerged that around 13,000 current and former civil servants and ministers were to have their pension deductions assessed for possible anomalies.<\/p>\n
During Tuesday\u2019s Leader\u2019s Questions Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Pearse Doherty asked why 10 current ministers and 17 former ministers had yet to pay back excess payments, claiming some of them were overpaid \u201ctens of thousands of euro\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Sinn F\u00e9in’s Pearse Doherty. Photo: PA<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThis isn\u2019t the Government\u2019s money, it\u2019s not the department\u2019s money, but it\u2019s the public\u2019s money, it is taxpayers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the shocking thing is, the public only came to learn about this yesterday after my questioning of Minister Chambers in the finance committee.\u201d<\/p>\n
Responding on behalf of the Government, Peter Burke said some of the delays were because: \u201cA number of clarifications have been sought in relation to the calculations that were brought forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cI absolutely know that everyone has a right to ensure that they are paying the correct amount.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Minister for Enterprise also added: \u201cThe Government is crystal clear that any retired civil servant or minister who does not comply or pay back what is due to the exchequer will not receive their pension, because this is a key requirement in following your pension.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said overpayments and underpayments had come about through an \u201cadministrative error\u201d by the National Shared Services Office (NSSO), a body which provides administrative services for government departments and public service bodies.<\/p>\n
Mr Burke said a review was being carried out into the issue by the NSSO\u2019s chairperson to \u201censure that something like this does not happen again\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serving and former ministers who do not pay back money that was overpaid to them by mistake will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,46,266,267],"class_list":{"0":"post-240370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}