Parliamentary Security Committee Commits to Amending Security Forces Retirement Law, Setting Optional Retirement Age at Forty

mniraq - The Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee confirmed its commitment to amending the service and retirement law for Internal Security Forces and the Ministry of Defense to guarantee personnel rights, rejecting objections that demanded raising the optional retirement age. The committee emphasized its adherence to establishing forty years as the minimum age for optional retirement, alongside a 15-year actual service requirement, asserting that accepting other conditions would undermine the amendment and deprive a large segment of their rights. The amendment also includes merging food allowances with the nominal salary to increase the pension value for personnel of both the Interior and Defense ministries equally, leaving the door open for objecting parties to resort to the judiciary after the law is passed.