Douglas North MHK John Houghton says he is angry that Treasury did not tell him he was not paying towards his pension.
Mr Houghton was revealed today as the one MHK who has not been making voluntary contributions to his Tynwald pension.
He insists it was all a misunderstanding and he had no idea he wasn’t contributing. He insisted he has not lied to anyone and has pledged to make arrangements to pay his contribution arrears going back to April 2012.
Mr Houghton told iomtoday: ‘I’m actually very angry - angry because I feel as if I’ve been let down. It would have been much more helpful for the Treasury to have simply let me know from day one that they hadn’t received the form and sent me another one. One chance was all I was asking for.
‘I had no idea whatsoever – that’s why I was emphatically confident that I was paying my dues.
‘I wouldn’t lie to anyone. What’s the point of lying because if you lie you get found out.’