retirement allowance
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At last Thursday’s session, a Senate bill, sponsored by Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean, seeks to reinstate the mandated monthly allowance upon leaving appointed or elected office for former governors and their spouses.
Local law states that a former governor, for...

![“It is only proper that once the former governor leaves the appointed or elected position, the monthly allowance shall then be reinstated,” says the preamble to Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean's bill. [SN file photo] Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/tuaolo_1865web_0.png?itok=w6gR5tQn)