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Pay Czar: AIG Must Reduce Retention Pay

Pay Czar: AIG Must Reduce Retention Pay

Pay czar says AIG needs to reduce its retention payments by $198 million.

Pay czar says AIG needs to reduce its retention payments by $198 million.

NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) --

American International Group

(AIG) - Get Free Report

is being forced to reduce $198 million in scheduled retention payments.

Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administrations pay czar, said these payments should be reduced, but did not indicate an appropriate amount, according to several reports.

A backlash ensued earlier this year after it was reported that AIG planned to pay bonuses of $165 million, even after receiving the bailout funding.

The flailing insurer is currently in the process of trying to repay a massive $85 billion loan from the government by selling off assets.

Earlier today

AIG announced that it finally unloaded its Taiwan unit

to

Primus Financial

for $2.15 billion.

-- Reported by Jeanine Poggi in New York

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