Jordan – The spokesman for the Social Security Corporation, Mousa al-Subeihi, criticized what some media outlets have published and what is being circulated through social media that some pensioners practices sell their pensions in order to obtain cash. Al-Subeihi said that this practice is illegal pointing that the purpose of the pension is to protect the retired person and his family from poverty and meet their daily living requirements. Al-Subaihi warned from selling the pension, which is an illegal practice, and a kind of gambling, outside the framework of the institutions, between the pensioner (the seller) and another person (buyer), he also wondered how can one sell a salary for a certain period or for life for a certain amount of money agreed by the parties, saying “what if the pensioner dies , the salary will be stopped or will be distributed to eligible heirs in accordance with the provisions of the Social Security Act, without regard to any agreement between the retiree and the buyer
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