The management of PTAD made this announcement on its website, adding that the exercise concerned all Treasury-funded parastatals, agencies and institutes in five of the six geopolitical zones of the country.
The geopolitical zones are: the South West, North East, South East, North West and North Central.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the DBS was in existence before the introduction of the Pension Reform Act 2004.
The directorate also said that the exercise would start from July 15 to Oct. 30 at 8am to 4pm daily except on Sundays and in different allotted centres in each zone.
The exercise in the South West zone is scheduled to begin on July 15 to July 24 in allocated centres in Ibadan, Abeokuta and Osogbo.
Also, the verification dates for the North-East zone would start on Aug. 5 till Aug. 9 in assigned centres in Bauchi and Maiduguri.
For the South-East zone, the exercise would start on Aug. 26 till Sept. 4 in selected centres in Enugu, Awka and Owerri.
In the North-West zone, the exercise would begin on Sept. 23 till Oct. 2 in selected centres in Kaduna, Kano and Sokoto.
Lastly, the verification in the North Central zone would start on Oct. 21 till Oct. 30 in centres in Abuja, Ilorin and Minna.
The organisation added that the verification would also cover retirees of 270 agencies.
The agencies include federal universities, polytechnics, research institutes and other treasury-funded parastatals, agencies and institutes, colleges of education, teaching hospitals and medical centres.
Also included are: Power Holding Company of Nigeria, Nigeria Railway Corporation and Nigeria Postal Services.
The management also said that the exercise would cover retirees of the defunct or privatised agencies yet to be verified.
These include: Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON), Nigeria Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO), Assurance Bank and Nigerian National Shipping Line (NNSL).
The directorate added that all pensioners currently living outside the country will be verified whenever they visit provided they show proof of residency outside Nigeria.
It explained that such proof should be provided in advance via PTAD’s email: info@ptad.gov.ng.
Furthermore, it stated that mobile verification would be conducted for sick and pensioners with disabilities.
“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,” it added.
The management also emphasised that the verification did not include pensioners from customs, immigration and prisons, civil service and police, as well as from parastatals, who had previously been verified by PTAD.
It noted that pensioners are not required to travel to the states they retired from to be verified, adding that they could be verified in any of the centres in the geo-political zones where they reside.
The organisation also advised retirees to be wary of fraudsters “as pension payment is free”.
“PTAD will NEVER request for cash to process your pension. Please call 08144607574 or email actu@ptad.gov.ng to report suspicious phone calls or messages.”
Pensioners were further advised to call PTAD’s Toll Free Lines on 0800-2255-7823, email info@ptad.gov.ng or complaints@ptad.gov.ng, or visit its website on www.ptad.gov.ng for more information.
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I don't know why we keep subjecting the aged to this. Some are so sick with one ailment or the other. The last time this was done in 2015 some were brought in in wheel barrows because they couldn't walk and the terrain wasn't wheel chair friendly or the families couldn't afford wheel chair. I just wish I could forget some things but some images will not leave my brain. It's tough to be a Nigerian
ReplyDeleteFor a country that has been selling oil for decades things should be wayyyy better for the average Nigerian.
DeleteI don't know why we keep subjecting the aged to this. Some are so sick with one ailment or the other. The last time this was done in 2015 some were brought in in wheel barrows because they couldn't walk and the terrain wasn't wheel chair friendly or the families couldn't afford wheel chair. I just wish I could forget some things but some images will not leave my brain. It's tough to be a Nigerian
ReplyDeleteNo be verify be the matter na to pay after the verification. Again FG has to find a way to ease this verification process so that the aged don't continue to die in the gueue.
ReplyDeletePay people their moneys!!!! Verification upon verification that’s all they do. People are dying everyday for something money would have solved. The verification they did in 2018 where aged people traveled from far places and were coming out in the early harmattan cold what have they done with that? Smh.
ReplyDeleteWhy do they keep perpetuating this evil? Is it the best way for them to write off funds fron the purse? They subject these elderly to this almost every year. Some spend more money on transportation than they get paid per month. If you see the amount of sick pensioners being brought for verification and their state, you would weep for this country. They wait under the sun for hours on end to get 'verified'. If you don't give the officials something after your verification, wahala. Some don't even earn up to 1k monthly as pension. 9ja has some of the most selfish and wicked leaders in the world....and they are all religious.
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