Former Independent journalists request increase in pension payments

FORMER journalists at Independent News & Media are asking the company to increase their pension payments.

The workers, some of whom were with the company for more than 30 years, claim their pensions are worth just €40 a week. The former workers want their pension payments indexed to the cost of living.

Kevin O’Connor, a former news editor with the Sunday Independent, said at the company’s annual general meeting in Dublin yesterday that many of the people affected are elderly and had worked extremely hard for the Independent over many years.