By Modupe Gbadeyanka
About 21,227 unverified pensioners from various parastatals of government would be removed from the payroll of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) from October 2020.
A statement from the agency said the list containing names of the affected pensioners has been forwarded to pension unions, associations, agencies and institutes since July 2020 for dissemination and sensitization of their members and to give feedback to the directorate.
According to PTAD, the 21,227 pensioners were those who failed to turn up for the directorate’s 2019 PaPD nationwide and in-house verification exercises. Also, they neither submitted a documentary request for mobile verification nor registered as diaspora pensioners.
In the statement, it was disclosed that documented diaspora pensioners and pensioners who requested for mobile verification but are not yet verified, have also been added to the documented pensioners pending when it would be convenient for them to be verified.
The PTAD said in view of the COVID-19 lockdown, it has released some guidelines which bonafide pensioners amongst the identified 21,227 pensioners with authentic documents should follow to ensure that their names are not removed from the payroll.
According to the agency, pensioners who are resident overseas should scan all their career records, bank statement, BVN slip with a picture, mobile number, email address, resident permit, data page of international passport showing picture and personal details, certificate of aliveness from the nearest Nigeria embassy and send to [email protected].
Also, pensioners who are sick have been asked to scan all their career records, bank statement, BVN slip with a picture, mobile number, email address, national identity card or national driver’s license, a medical report from a government hospital and send to [email protected].
For pensioners who are neither sick nor resident abroad but missed the verification exercises of 2019, they are required to scan all their career records, bank statement, BVN slip with a picture, mobile number, email address, national identity card or national driver’s license and send to [email protected] to be scheduled for verification.
The PTAD said in the unlikely event that a pensioner has been previously verified by the directorate but still find his/her name on the list, such a person should scan their verification slip and send to [email protected].
Pensioners can check their names on the list by inputting their account number and the name of the agency they retired from HERE. If the pensioner’s details do not open up, it means the name is not on the list of those to be removed from the payroll.
