A spokesman for the Ministry of Finance today denied reports that victims of Nazism receiving pensions and restitution had been short-changed by the Government; Most of those victims are Jews.
Press dispatches had reported that, through an “error” charging the victims with income taxes on tax-free payments and through failure to increase their pensions to the same scales paid civil service workers, the restitution recipients had been short-changed by about $100,000,000 in the last 10 years.
Terming those reports “untrue,” the Finance Ministry spokesman said that indemnity courts had, so far, found not a single case in which restitution payments were lower than the amounts due. Just because salaries paid to Government officials, he added, have been raised by 10 percent, it should not be assumed that the pensions paid to victims of Nazism were less than the amounts due.
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