The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate has expressed its commitment to ensuring that pensioners across the country are getting their entitlements when due.
The Federal Government-owned pension agency said since the inception of the current administration, it had done a lot in making sure that the pension sector was well reformed.
The Executive Secretary of PTAD, Dr Chioma Ejikeme, stated this at the South-West Stakeholders Forum held in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Friday.
Ejikene expressed gratitude to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), saying since the inception of his administration, he had made payments of pensions ‘an un-written first line charge’.
She said, “The commitment of PTAD to the welfare of our pensioners remains sacrosanct, and we shall continue our meetings and engagement with the various pension unions to ensure quality service delivery.
” It is our prayer that the President-elect will be as favourably disposed towards the pensioners of the Defined Benefit Scheme as the administration of President Buhari has been. We cannot afford to go back to the time when the DBS pensioners were owed months of pension arrears and their needs pushed to the back burner.”
Speaking on the recently launched ‘I Am Alive Confirmation’ solution, which was inaugurated last month for the use of pensioners in ensuring efficient and effective delivery, Ejikeme stated that a six-month grace period would be provided for every department and their pensioners to complete their IAAC Solution so that the system would not crash.
According to her, the IAAC solution was the internet-based verification platform for all the Defined Benefit Scheme pensioners under PTAD’s payroll and was launched on April 14 with the police pensioners being inaugural enrollees.
“It is our prayer that the president-elect will be as favourably disposed towards the pensioners of the Defined Benefit Scheme as the administration of President Buhari has been.
“Our journey from field verifications, and mobile verifications, to putting together a solid database of pensioners, benefit computation, ensuring the regular payment of monthly pensions and paying long overdue pension arrears to pensioners, has been a progressive one filled with creativity, dedication, commitment, persistence and resulting in milestone achievements.
“It is not yet a perfect situation, albeit PTAD has made giant strides and is committed to continuing to make giant strides,” she said.
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