My wife and I can't, and neither of us pay much income tax on our modest pensions.

It calls those who retire on a modest pension, "affluent."

Just off the ancient harbor, this is a modest 10-room pension with good food, an accommodating staff and reasonable prices.

There was a modest pension on the basis of her husband's death, but the family were in dire financial circumstances.

They make do with Social Security and modest pensions.

He said he lived off a modest pension and a small inheritance.

Most public sector workers retire on very modest pensions, she says.

In 1924 he was awarded an honorary professorship by the German government together with a modest pension.

He retired early from the family business to devote a modest pension to his scientific work.

With the French Revolution, he lost his post and, later on, the modest pension allocated to it.