AMMAN — There are 265 social security
pensioners who receive a salary of JD5,000 and above, at a median of JD6,900
each, earning 14 times more than the general average of the collective number
of pensioners in Jordan, according to Mousa Al-Subaihi, an insurance and social
protection expert, in a post on his Facebook page, carried by Ammon News.
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Those high-paid pensioners cost the
Social Security Corporation (SSC) an annual bill amounting to JD22 million, whereas the average
monthly salary that Jordanians receive from the corporation as pension is
JD475.
“Those inflated salaries are the result of distortion
in the SSC Law,” said Subaihi, because not until the 2014 amendments did the
SSC place ceilings on wages subject to pension subscriptions, stipulating that deductible
wages must not exceed JD3,000. “This amendment reinstated fairness to the
maximum pension an individual could get,” while prior to 2014, the wages
subject to SSC deductions stood at five times the median of wages in Jordan.
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