Ekysy: Thousands of pensioners under poverty line excluded from Easter allowance

Pensioners’ union Ekysy said the government’s decision to pay a €250 Easter allowance to low-income pensioners was a “conscious exclusion” of ten times more elderly people than those set to receive it. Ekysy said that just 10,000 low-income pensioners were to benefit from the allowance, while over 100,000 low-income pensioners were in actual fact living […]