Mrs. IYONKYO: Dear Omobola, my name is Chia Chia, a solicitor to Mrs. Iyonkyo of Gboko, Benue State.
Thank you for your previous assistance to my client. However, my client does not know her late husband’s PFA or RSA number.
She also does not, even if the deceased had enrolled for the CPS at any time before his death on January 31, 2006.
As her solicitor, I have written emails on her behalf to PTAD’s Customs, Immigration and Prisons Pension Department (CIPPD) and PenCom for assistance, but no response has been received from the organisations.
My client is aware that there is a procedure for claimants whose benefactors had not opened an RSA in any PFA. That procedure permits such claimants to open an account with any PFA to have their death benefits processed and paid.
My client had pleaded with PenCom to be allowed to adopt this procedure but has received no response.
We humbly appeal to you to assist my client as you have been doing.
For the record, my client’s deceased husband, Mr Iyonkyo, was in the employment of the Nigeria Customs Service and he died on October 31, 2006.
After many years of trying to procure the payment of the death benefits, my client was informed by the NCS that the deceased’s Pension Fund Administrator is identified by a code 003 and further suggested that the code refers to Premium Pension.
However, when I contacted Premium Pension on behalf of my client, the company informed me that its code is 002 and not 003. We have resorted to contacting each and every licensed PFA in Nigeria with the deceased’s Pension PIN to find out which PFA he had opened a Retirement Savings Account. The PIN number is Annonymous. Kindly help us unravel the deceased PFA and pension benefits.
AKEREDOLU: Greetings to The Nation. God bless you more for the good works you are doing for pensioners. Please, I want to know the reason PenCom or PFAs are not paying the arrears of pensioners who retired in 2014, 2O15, 2O16, etc up till now.
My PFA, Legacy FCMB Pension has not send me any information or alert till date. I want to know what they are doing with my money. PenCom should warn or sanction my PFA for not communicating with me.
MUSA: My name is Musa, the son of the late Inspector Musa. We have an issue with the pension of our father who died on August 4, 2015. We have submitted all the documents that we were asked to submit. Yet, we did not get any reply from them. Our last hope is PenCom. Kindly help us to resolve this issue. Thank you.
GIMBA: My name is Gimba. My complaint is about the non-release of my pension since October 2020. I retired from Federal Polythenic, Bida in June 2016. I was paid my benefits in July 2017, through my PFA, Premium Pension.
I then transferred to Leadway for annuity.The Federal Government recently said it had released funds to pay us. When and how will this money be paid? I am being owed 24 months.
DADA: President Muhammadu Buhari approved the payment of outstanding accrued pension rights for Federal Government’s retirees, death benefits and 2.5 per cent increase of monthly pension contributions for federal employees. Pencom. Please, when are you paying us the 2.5 per cent?
OLADIPUPO: Dear Omobola, I really appreciate your active part in the matters of the pensioners. I retired in 2012 and I have no problem with my PFA, Stanbic IBTC Pension. But the issue is: I keep on reading about the statement of account and investment and life pension. When would one really stop receiving pension alert?
ANNONYMOUS: Dear Omobola, my mother died on May 16, 2014 and her pension was processed and completed in 2018. We have not heard anything from her PFA since then nor received any payment from them. What are we supposed to do next?
SEGUN: My name is Segun, the next of kin to the late Olajide, a civil servant in Kwara State. He retired on February 1, 2019 and died five days later. I have processed the documents to claim his benefits through the Police Pension, but I am yet to be paid.
We are three children – the second is in higher institution without a helper. Kindly use your good offices to help through at this trying period of our lives.
UKEJE: My name is Ukeje. I retired from Nigeria Custom Service in 2016 on grade level 10. We read that Mr. President had released 7.5 to 10 percent, being the backlog for those who retired from 2014.
Please note that the N33,000 I receive monthly has not been increased.
DABUP: I wish to know if I am a beneficiary of the 2.5 per cent pension arrears. I retired in January 2011 and my PFA is Leadway annuity.
BASHEER: I retired on May 20, last year from the Nigeria Custom Service. After the accrued right has been paid, I approached my PFA only to be told that my name was missing from the PenCom list.
I was told that my name and others were omitted and that we should wait for Batch 51. Please, when will the Batch be paid because my situation is critical and I need money.
THE NATION: The newspaper will intervene. Do look out for the newspaper next week for responses from PenCom.
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