The relationship allows Goldis representatives to speak at the union's annual meeting and distribute pension planning software in city firehouses.
Besides, tax laws generally prohibit companies from distributing pensions to working employees.
Food rations and free shoes were distributed, pensions were increased, and (for a time) free Saturdays were introduced.
On another afternoon, they stood guard in the sun while federal workers distributed pension checks to the elderly in a town square, looking bored.
It was one thing to distribute old-age pensions but quite another to allow the government to intrude into intimate medical affairs.
Mr. Ortega, elected in 2006 with a former contra as his running mate, has distributed roofing materials, pensions and property titles to families of contras who turned in weapons as part of a 1987 peace accord.
To counter a Conservative poster asserting that Mr. Brown has squandered public pensions, The Guardian wrote, the new campaign will distribute posters saying, "I took billions from pensions — Wanna make something of it?" Strategists are even discussing "engineering a high-profile incident of violence on the campaign trail," the article said.
Under the current system, the annual pension, distributed in monthly payments, equals half the average salary earned during the last three years of service.
Instead of being paid out in a check, severance is being distributed from the pension fund and is subject to 10% lump-sum tax, plus income tax.
