Top Ministry of Defence bureaucrats are pocketing bonuses as high as £60,000 while thousands of frontline troops are being sacked, it has emerged. About 70 mandarins have shared almost £700,000 for ‘good performance’, while 4,480 soldiers received redundancy letters on Tuesday. The penpushers shared an average of £10,000 each as a reward for trying to save the wasteful department money as British service personnel face P45s after risking their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq. MoD bureaucrats are receiving bonuses two or three times higher than the basic salary of a new recruit in the army One civil servant received £60,000 on top of a bumper salary. Payments of £48,720, £36,541 and £35,729 were banked by other unnamed bureaucrats.....Read more.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:57:59 +0000
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