Word: pensionable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wrote the Rev. Theodore Bell of St. John's Chapel, Del Monte, Calif., in an open letter to the Episcopal Church Pension Fund...
...Hardly one of our laity realizes the disgraceful truth that our Church, the richest communion in the richest land on earth, pays faithful servants who retire because of age an average pension of $76 per month; that she pays those forced by illness into earlier retirement about $65 per month; that she has the coldhearted callousness to pay the aged widows of deceased clergy the miserable pension of $31 monthly...
...priest died. He was a man of more than average ability, a scholarly man, appointed by his bishop to serve as an examining chaplain ... He retired in poor health at 68 and in a few months died. Our rich, generous and purportedly Christian Church granted his widow a pension of $27.60 per month . . . Our Episcopal Church tells the widow of a priest to live on $6.50 per week ... on less than $1.00 a day. God pity us; for her we need not pray...
Last week the House also: ¶ Whooped through a $72-a-month pension for all veterans 65 and over with incomes of less than $1,200 if single, $2,500 if married...
...share when the market value of the stock averaged $57.50 and, in twenty years, had not exceeded $73. In reorganization, too, the public ownership clause exempted the new company from participation in the Federal Social Security Act benefits. The MTA had to set up its own pension system at an annual cost of $1,400,000. To add to the staggering totals, the outgoing El trustees voted $80,000 in lavish executive pensions...