$20M PAYOUT: Former MPs’ already paid $400k each

Former Members of Parliament were paid their terminal grants of $400,000 each at the end of February— totaling up to $20m.

Permanent Secretary of Finance and Treasury McKinnie Dentana revealed today to journalists.

The terminal grant to the former 50 Members of Parliament was one of the big payments made by the government in the first quarter of the year.

Attorney- General John Muria Jr. explained that the payment was an entitlement to the former MPs as it was an award made by the Public Entitlements Commission.

Dentana in confirming the payment also stated that some MPs had also had their entitlements deducted to pay for some of the government, for state assets. For instance, some used part of their funds to acquire government vehicles which they had used whilst in office and they were entitled to buy it.

The terminal grant was paid to all MPs in both sides of the house.

This was the second time that MPs’ had been $400,000, the first one was in $2018 after it was increased by the PEC.

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