The following are the top stories in national newspapers today.

Times of Malta says MPs and those who filled important political offices in the past benefit from more than €2 million a year in special pensions under a controversial 1979 law. In another story, it says the number of care orders has gone down over the past two years because of a policy change and a new service.

The Malta Independent quotes the Finance Minister saying that the government’s objective was to regularise the rental market “irrespective of rising rental prices”.

L-Orizzont leads with an appeal from the Mental Health Commissioner for dignity to be given to workers with mental health problems.

In-Nazzjon says that Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico offered to resign as the ruling coalition sought to calm a political crisis sparked by the murder of a journalist.