For years now, the federal parliament has been paying eight civil servants and two former presidents of parliament thousands of euros too much in pension every month through a construction that may be illegal. “When I discovered it, I fell off my chair,” says current Chamber President Eliane Tillieux (PS). We tried to find out with her how this scandal could stay under the radar for so long and asked the surprised beneficiaries to respond. “Was that extra pension illegal?”
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How is it possible that ex-Presidents of Parliament and civil servants ‘illegally’ received hundreds of thousands of euros in extra pension? “If it was illegal, I will return everything”
