Secretarial allowance
The secretarial allowance is a reimbursement of expenses for parliamentarians of the EU Parliament and the Swiss National Council and Council of States in addition to the parliamentary allowance, daily allowances, general lump sum and travel expenses .
European Parliament
The secretarial allowance for members of the European Parliament was a maximum of 16,900 euros per month in 2008 ; in 2010 it was increased to 19,040 euros and in 2011 to 21,209 euros. It is intended to finance the salaries of employees .
In 2008 it was reported that this allowance was misused or abused by MEPs . A sample of 167 uncovered incidents in which the secretarial allowance was not used properly. For example, parliamentarians paid non-existent employees, others obliged their assistants to transfer part of their salary to the MPs, or relatives were employed without them being in the least qualified. The European Parliament responded by changing the rules.
Switzerland
In Switzerland, the members of the Council receive an annual allowance of 31,750 francs as a contribution to cover the personnel and material expenses that serve to fulfill their parliamentary mandate.
Web links
- Hamburger Abendblatt - Who gets how much in Parliament? (January 22, 2005)
Individual evidence
- ↑ spiegel.de: European Parliament: More Money for Assistants (May 20, 2010); EU Parliament increases secretarial allowance by 1,500 euros (March 3, 2011)
- ↑ europarl.europa.eu: allowances for the members of the european parliament
- ↑ dradio.de: Nepotism in the EU Parliament (February 28, 2008)
- ↑ EP Bureau decides on fundamental reform of expenditure for parliamentary assistants , EP press release of 14 July 2008
- ↑ parliament.ch: Art. 3a PRG