Pensions cut for communist agents

8th January 2010

As of the beginning of this year, approximately 40,000 ex-communist secret service agents have been forced to take a significant cut in their pensions.

The new law, originally set up in March last year, will drastically hit out at the privileges that former communist functionaries had come to expect.

Until January 1, members of the Military Council of National Salvation (the military dictatorship set up in December 1981 to administer Poland during martial law) could expect to take home as much as PLN 8,500 a month in pensions. That figure has now been slashed to a much more modest sum of around PLN 4,000.

Amongst the many ex-service men to be affected by the new law is General Wojciech ...