His father refused to accept welfare after the paper mill forced him into early retirement on a meager pension.
This is about ordinary working people trying to protect their meager pensions.
Payments of around $1,000 a person are expected for the survivors, whose average age is almost 80 and many of whom subsist on meager pensions.
Police disperse an organized street demonstration of elderly men demanding a raise in their meager pensions.
And I was retired from the church on a meager pension.
In 1979, Janka died and the poet was allocated a meager pension.
Among the victims are retired workers in North Carolina whose already meager pensions were slashed 30 percent.
Four years later in 1847, his father died leaving his mother on a meager pension.
His father, a retired army lieutenant on a meager pension, cut costs by sewing his son's clothes.
Many of these women live on meager pensions and they draw solace from the lengthy religious programming.