Wednesday, May 30 / May 2012 10:35
[Baghdad - where]
Announced the retirement fund Iraqi journalists raise the salaries of retirees in the fund to 125 dinars a month / about $ 100 / after it was since 2003, only 500 dinars, less than half a dollar per month.
They were retirees have complained to government officials past and present, demanding the transfer of files from the Fund to the public pension and re-calculation of salaries according to the legal entitlement.
A source in the Fund, told all of Iraq [where] that the new pensions will be spent from the beginning of the year, and retirees can now receive salaries of the first four months of this year and will pay every two months, such as retirees in the state.
The number of these pensioners 132 journalists died in 100 and remained alive 32 retired, they say that the new salary is inadequate and not commensurate with their services while paid their colleagues have been referred to retired state four or five times that salary and hoped that being an amendment to this salary as the rest of retirees and appeal to journalists' union follow-up problem with the government in preparation for the celebration of the Iraqi press in 15 of the next month of June.
They say they offered to the problem when he was Ibrahim al-Jaafari as prime minister has pledged to solve the man according to the book Prime Minister's Office 16/1/46 to 22/6/2005 in the Ministry of Finance to transfer their files to the Directorate General of retirement and give them a pension equal to their peers of retirees subject to the provisions of retirement of civil law but the Ministry of Finance did not respond to the request of the Prime Minister.
In October 2009, the face of a reporter's question to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's National Center for Media (response is now posted on the Centre) called it a solution to the problem when he heard al-Maliki that the salary of the journalist, retired 500 dinars (less than half a dollar) said the text and as found at the site of the National Center for Media, "I promise you I'll take this dark hard and I did not know clearly this tragedy and I will work with all stakeholders processed according to the law of the new retirement, out of respect for the role of journalists and equitable to them and save them as citizens before being told of this injustice obscene and I hope my follow up on this the problem. "
Obiv and retirees: It is now more than two years on that promise had been treated with the Prime Minister of the problem.
According to the testimony of retired journalists' union demanded that all those responsible redress their problem solving, but despite pledges by officials to find a solution, it did not happen. / End
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