The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has announced the completion of the verification exercise for 0ver 10,000 pensioners of federally funded Parastatals, Agencies and Institutes under the Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS).
Chioma Nnenna Ejikeme, Executive Secretary, PTAD, has approved a 6-day extension for the center in Owerri and a 4-day extension for the center in Enugu owing to the large turnout of pensioners in Enugu and Owerri.
“The extension is to ensure that all eligible pensioners and Next of Kin who presented themselves are verified. The exercise which held simultaneously across the four centers recorded an average daily turnout of 344 pensioners”.
According to the statement, the next phase of the Parastatals pensioner exercise in the North West region will commence on Monday, September 23 and ends on Wednesday October 2, 2019.
“Pensioners are again advised that they do not have to travel to the state or location they retired from to be verified. They can be verified at any of our centers that is within the geo-political zones where they currently reside”.
“All pensioners currently living outside the country will be verified whenever they visit the country provided they show proof of residency outside Nigeria. Such proof should be provided in advance via PTAD email: info@ptad.gov.ng”.
The directorate stressed that continuous mobile Verification will be conducted for sick and infirm Pensioners adding that the original documents of the pensioners must be brought to the verification venue together with proof of infirmity for authentication, before mobile verification can be scheduled.
“This verification exercise did not include Customs, Immigration and Prisons Pensioners, Civil Service Pensioners, Police pensioners as well as Parastatals Pensioners who had already been verified by PTAD”.
Cynthia Egboboh, Abuja.
