Pension Directorate Delists 21,227 Unverified Pensioners from Nigerian Govt’s Payroll
The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) said it would expunge 21,227 unverified parastatal pensioners currently on the directorate’s payroll and who had not shown up for verification with effect from October.
It made the disclosure in a statement issued on Friday and titled ‘PTAD Removes Unverified Parastatals Pensioners from Its Payroll.’
PTAD said the list of the affected pensioners had been handed to the pension unions, associations, agencies and institutes in July for dissemination and sensitisation of their members and to give feedback to the directorate.
Chioma Ejikeme, PTAD’s Executive Secretary, noted that the affected parastatal pensioners were those that did not appear at the directorate’s 2019 Parastatal Pensions Department (PaPD) nationwide and in-house verification rounds.
She went further to say they did not also submitted documentary request for mobile verification nor registered as diaspora pensioners.
According to Ejikeme, in 2019, a-well publicised PaPD verification exercise for all federally funded parastatals, institutes and agencies under the Defined Benefit Scheme was carried out across the six geopolitical zones of the country including Lagos and Abuja.
Conducive centres situated at strategic and accessible locations were provided in each zone, she said, to carry out the exercise for an average period of two weeks.
“A total of 32 centres were provided for the exercise which ran from April to November 2019,” she added.
She observed that the programme which spanned months saw the National Assembly, particularly the House of Assembly Committee on Pension and Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service provide legislative oversight support all through.
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