…say those above 70yrs no longer receive pensions
…after physical capturing
…alleged only the connected get paid
…we are paying in batches, PTAD source
Retirees raise alarm over non-payment of accumulated three months pensions alleging that only those connected to the presidency get paid.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that despite being captured by the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, since October only those connected to the presidency got their pensions paid.
A probe into this development by TNG revealed that after the Directorate captured the retirees about four months ago, it stopped paying retirees above 70years.
Their anger stemmed from the fact that the FG is deliberately paying those connected to the Federal Government.
Some of the senior citizens who spoke to TNG under the condition of anonymity expressed worry that government is delibetely digging their graves because they are old.
One of the senior citizens said” I have fulfilled all their requirements yet I don’t receive any alert since I completed the exercise.
“What is government expecting me to feed on when I am still paying school fees of my children in tertiary institutions,” he wondered.
Another who resides in Lagos said” I have done all that is required of me and no dime has been sent to my account since October last year.
An Abuja based retiree who left service as a director had a catalogue of issues to grapple with as all her children are males.
“I really wish I had a female child, do you know that you men once you marry it’s you and your wives you cater for and you abandon your aged parents.
“This last Christmas my neighbor’s daughter sent bags of rice but none of my sons living large with their families sent me a grain of rice.
“I am above 70 now, is government expecting me to die of hunger after serving for 35years, you see why some civil servants steal in this part of the clime,” she lamented.
When the Directorate was contained by TNG, a source confirmed that payments were being made in batches to retirees and those that had not gotten should forward their six months statements of account and details of their physical capturing exercise to PTAD via email and physical presentation of such details.
The source explained that”what actually affected the payment was this Covid 19 pandemic or the Directorate normally does not delay payments.
On the allegation of using the presidency to collect payment, the source said”there’s nothing like that.
On the website of the Directorate as at yesterday, retirees of NAHCO were advised to check the Sun newspaper of January 7th (yesterday) for their payments list as the Directorate is paying in batches.
The Directorate was solely established to cater for retirees of both defunct government bodies and existing ones until their demise
Section 42 of the PRA 2014 established the Pension Transitional Arrangements Directorate (PTAD) as part of the transitional arrangements for the public sector from the Defined Benefit Scheme. PTAD took over the functions of the various Pension Departments of the Public Service and is responsible for payment to existing retirees of the Federal Government that retired up to June, 2007 and thus exempted from the CPS. The Commission is empowered by Section 48 of the PRA 2014 to issue rules, regulations and directives to PTAD in order to ensure that retirees are being paid as and when due. PTAD shall cease to exist after the demise of the last pensioner entitled to pension under the Defined Benefit Scheme of the Public Service of the Federation.