Higher-paid officials will lose 15-20% of their monthly salary, on top of an across-the-board 20% reduction last year.

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MEPs' pre-tax monthly salary is set at 7, 956.87 euros.

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With her cancer treatment costing 2, 500 euros a month -- but a gross monthly salary of just under half of that -- it is impossible for her to cover her medical bills.

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Anyone who opted, after 30 December, to pay their back-taxes this way might be unaware there was anything wrong, and might eventually have found their tax was not being collected through their monthly salary payments as they had intended.

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On probation, Mr. Lewis had to fill out monthly cash-flow statements showing his salary and spending to prove he wasn't involved in any unusual activities.

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On top of their salary, the latest increase will raise MEPs' monthly 4, 299-euro office allowance to 5, 799 euros.

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The training strengthens them, helps them build a wide variety of life skills and then they start earning and gain economic power from an average monthly family income of Rs 3, 500 and to an individual salary of Rs 5, 000-7, 000 per month.

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