Parliament on Monday continued reviewing legislation to regulate the matter of multiple pensions paid out to state officials, although no details of the discussion were later disclosed.

The House finance committee will revisit the matter in three weeks’ time, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported. That session would be attended by Finance Minister Makis Keravnos.

By then, CNA said, the government bill might also be tabled.

MPs meanwhile have come up with a dozen legislative proposals of their own. According to CNA, efforts would be made to merge the 12 bills into just one or two.

In 2011 parliament had passed a law prohibiting the payment of multiple pensions to any state official – other than those listed in a 1980 law.

Under the Pensions (Certain Officials of the Republic) Law of 1980, the pensions of the president, the House speaker, ministers, junior ministers, MPs and generally of state officials are suspended if they undertake any other function or office in the Republic.

But in 2014, the 2011 law was found to be unconstitutional, on the grounds that pensions are a person’s property. However, the 1980 law itself has not been voided and is still in force.

The issue regained traction in 2023 after reveals that President Nikos Christodoulides and members of his cabinet continued receiving pensions for past service in the public sector while drawing a salary for their current jobs.