The Diet approved a 20 percent cut in legislators’ summer bonuses Friday after the House of Councilors unanimously voted for a bill to amend a law regulating Diet members’ expenses and allowances.
Lawmakers, except the top and deputy posts in the two Diet chambers, will receive about ¥2.4 million this summer, down from approximately ¥3 million last year.
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