More on Minister's pay hike

The prime minister’s press secretary said Lee’s decision to freeze his salary was not a response to opposition to the salary hike.

“The fact is it was a decision taken up front even before the announcements of pay revision,” Chen Hwai Liang told AFP.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/apr/13/yehey/opinion/20070413opi6.html

'Decision taken up front even before the announcements of pay revision (was made)' sounds familiar. Didn't they say that when PAP increase the GST by 2% point after the election? Don't think 'wayward,' that is to cover our 'R&D expenses,' not for the salary increase.

both Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew who earned $2.7 million each last year, will now get paid $3.04 million each.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/269330/1/.html

I don't understand why Goh and Lee are still getting paid. Aren't they have stepped down? Freelancing from home?