Ms. Edelman, who values her independence, said she received a modest pension from having worked at two state psychiatric hospitals as director of volunteers.
He filed a bankruptcy petition show ing debts of more than $600,000, and after living out his years on a modest pension from I. C.S., he died broke in 1936, at the age of 93.
As the widow of a military barber, Jeems by name, who had eared for the whiskers of General George H. Thomas during the Civil War, she was in receipt of a modest pension from the U.S. Treasury.
Some municipalities even offer some of their volunteers affordable housing and modest pensions.
"One or two incomes, one or two modest pensions, a modest home with a mortgage, a husband, a wife and two kids.
Older people tend to have the widest income disparity, since while some people retire to live on modest pensions, more senior managers get hefty pay rises in the last years of their working life, with pensions afterwards to match.
"It hurts those who have saved enough for modest pensions.
After a career of service, our members retire with modest pensions of about $19,000 per year.
He was able for several decades to sustain his existence as an independent scholar in the remote Frankish village of Bruckberg by virtue of his wife, Bertha Löw, having been partial heir of a porcelain factory located there, from a modest pension due to his father's service to Bavaria, and from publishing royalties.
He lives on a modest pension and makes maintenance payments from that for his 13-year-old son, the judge was told.
