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Sri Lankan lawmakers scrap their pensions, delivering on a campaign promise (apnews.com)

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Headline leaves out this important distinction:

In Sri Lanka, a lawmaker was previously entitled to a pension after serving a five-year term. The new law stops payments to anyone who already receives, or qualifies for, the pension.

The pensions being scrapped those that are only received by elected politicians (or sometimes their widows). There is no scrapping of general government pensions for regular people with this action.