{"id":41995,"date":"2021-04-06T10:47:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T10:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=41995"},"modified":"2021-04-06T10:47:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T10:47:51","slug":"nigerian-govt-promises-to-clear-pension-arrears-by-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=41995","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian govt promises to clear pension arrears by June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Chioma-Ejikeme.jpg\" alt=\"Pension directorate delists 21,227 unverified pensioners from Nigerian govt\u2019s payroll\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal government has promised to clear arrears of all pension payments to retired civil servants in the next two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chioma Ejikeme, Executive Secretary the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) in charge of the administration of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/n24bn-fraud-ex-staff-of-police-pension-commission-bought-n54-9m-abuja-home-in-daughters-name-witness\/\">pensions<\/a>&nbsp;of federal retirees made this pledge while announcing that the commission has paid N6.2 billion arrears to 16,210 pensioners under its Defined Benefits Scheme (DBS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement made available to Ripples Nigeria on Tuesday, Ejikeme also assured that pensioners\u2019 welfare and wellbeing are of utmost priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy the end of the 2nd quarter of 2021, all issues relating to short payments, gratuity and other forms of arrears for Civil Service Pensioners would be settled,\u201d the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement also disclosed that PTAD has embarked on an expanded re-validation and re-computation exercise in a bid to clear all pension arrears and resolve all complaints of short payments and outstanding gratuities for the civil service pensioners and their next of kin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo far, the directorate has been able to review, compute, recomputed, during the exercise (September 2020 \u2013 March 2021) a total of 46,284 pensioners\u2019 files was reviewed for an end to end quality assurance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA total sum of N6.2 billion has been paid as arrears of gratuity, monthly payments and one-off payments to 16,210 Pensioners\/Nok that are qualified for the payment after the computation. Over 1,000 qualified pensioners not on payroll post verification have been put on the payroll and their arrears paid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA key aspect of the project is geared towards continuous resolution of complaints and to ensure that pensioners who have outstanding documents e.g., bank statements, BVN, and other required documents were contacted so as to resolve their complaints effectively,\u201d the statement noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal government has promised to clear arrears of all pension payments to retired civil servants in the next two months. Chioma Ejikeme, Executive Secretary the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) in charge of the administration of&nbsp;pensions&nbsp;of federal retirees made this pledge while announcing that the commission has paid N6.2 billion arrears to 16,210 pensioners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian govt promises to clear pension arrears by June &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=41995\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=41995#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Economy\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=21\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Nigerian govt promises to clear pension arrears by June\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nigerian govt promises to clear pension arrears by June &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=41995","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=41995#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Economy","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=21"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Nigerian govt promises to clear pension arrears by June"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=21\" rel=\"category\">Economy<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The Federal government has promised to clear arrears of all pension payments to retired civil servants in the next two months. 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