I get a monthly pension of 167 and my wife receives 125 per month. We cannot afford much other than our food. We should enjoy benefits like reductions in bus fares, cinema tickets and tax cuts like elderly people in Europe do. Pensioners in Cyprus are neglected by society and the state. Pensions today are eight per cent lower in real terms than they used to be a few years ago, the Union complained, calling for a mechanism to ensure self-employed people made contributions to Social Insurance based on how much they really earned.
Most people living under the poverty line are pensioners.
We ask the House of Representatives to halt this social injustice. Elderly people have offered a lot to society. Now it is society's turn to help the elderly. The comment adds to the brewing row over the renewal of the force's six-monthly mandate at the Security Council on December 15. The TRNC exists.