Dozens of dumped Queensland MPs already on taxpayer-funded pensions for life set to pocket $10,000 bonus Acting Premier Jeff Seeney has threatened to "name and shame" any MPs who attempted to claim the back pay. DOZENS of MPs dumped at last year's state election are now set to pocket up to $500,000 in back pay. The Newman Government has received legal advice that a 2008 Bligh government freeze on MP pay rises was unlawful. Taxpayers now face having to pay the state's dumped MPs, many of whom are already on taxpayer-funded pensions for life, at least $10,000 more. And the state's 89 current MPs have also been handed an immediate $57,481-a-year pay rise on top of even larger back pay amounts owed to them. Superannuation and parliamentary pensions will also be retrospectively boosted. The cash will also flow through to local government as the wages of Brisbane councillors are tied to state MPs. Acting Premier Jeff Seeney estimated the total bill could top "tens of millions" of dollars. Mr Seeney conceded all MPs were legally entitled to the money, but he threatened to name and shame any MPs who attempted to claim back pay. "I think former MPs and existing MPs need to act in good faith in this situation," he said. Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk urged all former and current Labor MPs not to claim the money. But retired Minister Robert Schwarten thumbed his nose at the warning saying politicians had long been underpaid. Quite frankly, I could not give a bugger what Jeff Seeney says. He is never going to guide my conscience," Mr Schwarten said. Current state MPs will now be paid $194,630 base salary, up from $137,149 - a 41 per cent increase. Unions last night labelled the pay rise a disgrace and called on the Government to immediately legislate to outlaw the increases and decouple state MP salaries from their federal counterparts. Former Premier Anna Bligh froze MP wages at the height of the global financial crisis and then extended the freeze in a bid to win votes during the 2009 election campaign. The Sunday-Mail revealed in May the freeze could have been in breach of the Parliament of Queensland Act which stipulates that state MPs pay be locked at just $500 less than federal MPs. Queensland Council of Unions president John Battams said the government should deny MPs the rise. "Why don't they make necessary legislative changes to make sure that this overblown pay rise doesn't go ahead," he said. The LNP has today used legal advice to justify this huge rise to MPs. Its claims that the payrise will be offset by reducing electoral allowances are weasel words, because these allowances were for general electorate expenses, whereas these pay rises will go straight into the pockets of MPs like Scott Driscoll. But yesterday Mr Seeney ruled out such a move. "The idea of trying to legislate away an entitlement that exists is repugnant to anyone who has a belief in the parliamentary system," he said. I think the system that we have, where an independent statutory authority makes these decisions, is the best one and I don't think there is any appetite to change that. In order to minimise the impact on the budget, Mr Seeney said Cabinet had decided to slash electoral allowances which were to be paid to MPs by half. Political party funding will also be halved. "In thinking about how we were going to address this issue, we found it unacceptable that the people of Queensland would be required to pay extra money," Mr Seeney said. We are determined that resolving this issues needs to be a cost-neutral exercise. The other thing we are going to do is instigate a complete review of the allowance system, to ensure that we are guaranteed to end up in a cost neutral situation.