MoD "civvies" also defended the system on the Army Rumour Service Arrse, an internet chatroom widely used by troops. One, calling himself scruff_2, said: "I am a
MoD civvie. I have been in the
MoD for 13 years. My basic is 18k a year. My bonus this year was £380."
Another, jim30, said: "We are not exactly being paid banker level bonuses here, and most people would rather that they used this pool of money to pay us properly, rather than this current sham of a scheme."
But another user, MrPVRd, criticised the decision to pay bonuses at a time when routine training for the Territorial Army was being suspended to save money - a decision that the government reversed last month.
"It beggars belief that these were to be paid at the same time that committed
TA training was to be scrapped," he wrote.
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