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  • PTAD: Resolving pensioners’ issues

    PTAD: Resolving pensioners’ issues

    AWOSOJI: Good Day, my name is Awosoji. I will like to know why PTAD did not include N32000 inside our monthly payment of April and May which is our right as federal government pensioners.

    PTAD: Dear Awosoji, please be informed that N32,000 will be added to every pensioner under DBS as soon as the fund for that purpose is made available except for some agencies like PHCN, PEOPLES BANK, NICON INSURANCE, NIGERIAN REINSURANCE, NITEL, PTI AND ASSURANCE BANK.  Thank you.

    OLIYE: Good day, my name is Oliye. I am a CSPD pensioner under PTAD. I retired from Federal Ministry of Education. I have not yet received my 20percent arrears and 32per cent pension arrears.

    PTAD: Dear OLIYE, please be inform that N32,000.00 will be added to each pensioner under DBS as soon as the fund for that purpose is made available except for some agencies like PHCN, Peoples Bank, NICON Insurance, Nigerian Reinsurance, NITEL, PTI And Assurance Bank. Thank you.

    IRIOGBE: Dear Omobola, It is alleged that 30per cent of pensioners under PTAD (DBS) have been paid the N32,000 each which the government approved as minimum wage effective July 29, 2024. If this is true, I would like to know the yardsticks used in paying them while others are left out? Does it mean others yet to be paid are now regarded as second class citizens? The arrears as at today, has gone to nine months. I have no doubt that the 2025 budget signed into law by the president will cover the payments of the new minimum wage or the arrears. The government should therefore, release enough funds to PTAD to pay us early.

    PTAD: Dear IRIOGBE, thank you we appreciate your appeal to the FG. Thank you.

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    DSP ATAKAH: Hello, I am Rtd DSP Yohanna. I retired in 2006. In July 2015, I was paid my gratuity and placed on monthly pension without the nine years pension arrears. I noticed my step was reduced. i was confirmed ASP in 1997 and promoted DSP in 2003 (step 7). PTAD staff asks me to provide my promotion letters including statement of account which I produced to them. They checked and told me that they made a mistake. They gave me a form and I filled it in March 2000. I was paid N3 million out of the nine years pension arrears. I shall be grateful if PTAD treat my complaint. Thank you.

    PTAD: Dear Mr. ATAKAH, please send your verification slip to our email complaints@ptad.gov.ng to enable us to deal as we discussed on the phone. Thank you.

    SHEKONI: Good day, my name is Shekoni. The outcome of verification exercise by PTAD in 2023 erroneously reduced my service years from 35 to 27 and consequently, it affected my monthly pension calculation till date. Kindly help me.

    ETUKUDO: Dear Omobola, my name is Etukudo. I retired in December 2006. My Federal Share of pension has not been paid. I have not received my gratuity of N202,706.26 up till now. I will be grateful if PTAD treats my complaints. Thank you.

    AJAYI: Dear Omobola, I am Ajayi. I retired from PHCN Osun State. I just want to know how far with the N32000 PTAD promised us.

  • PTAD: Resolving pensioners’ issues

    PTAD: Resolving pensioners’ issues

    ODUNTAN: Good day, I am sending this message on behalf of my dad. His pension monthly is over N51,000 but he was paid N37,000 in October, last year. We want to know what went wrong.

    PTAD: The Parastatals Pension Department (PaPD) of the Directorate will respond soon.            

    SGT BASSEY: I am Sgt Bassey. I have not received my pension for  October. Kindly help me.

    PTAD: The Police Pension Department (PPD) has represented all failed payment.

    ANNONYMOUS: Good day, I am one of the pensioners that did verification six months ago. I am surprised some people have done the second time.

    I am alive but up till now, no message has sent to me for the second verification as others have done. Please, advise me on what to do.

    PTAD: The pensioner is not reachable through phone.

    OWEI: Hello, I am a pensioner, indeed a NIPOST retiree. I have been getting my stipend all the time but to my utmost surprise in October 2023, I was short paid by N4,000.

    PTAD: The Parastatals Pension Department (PAPD) to respond.

    GODWIN: Good day, my name is Godwin. I withdrew from the force on June 1,  1995 and I started enjoying pension from February26, 2002 till September 2023.

    However, I have not been paid October and November 2023. I learned that I missed verification.

    Please, I’m alive.

    PTAD: The pensioner is not reachable through phone.

    ROSEMARIE: I am Rosemarie. My NTA pension from November till date has not been paid. The network has been inconsistent in my locality for months.

    Kindly help me.

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    PTAD: The Parastatals Pension Department (PAPD) is working to resolve complaint

    TIMOTHY: My name is Timothy from Oyo State. I want to know what was used to compute my monthly pension since October 1993. I have been on federal share since 1993. Kindly save my situation.

    PTAD: The pensioner is not reachable through phone.

    CHUKWUDUBRM: Hello, my father Chukwudubem, a retired police man, did not receive his money for October 2023.

    Please, we need assistance from your good offices. Thank you

    PTAD: The pensioner is not reachable through phone.

    ADESIYAN: My name is Adesiyan. I am one of the federal pensioner from Osun State. My problem is that I have tried to confirm my “I’M ALIVE” programme for more 10 times. The message comes back as ‘Verification Failed and Faces do not Match’.

    What can I do to solve this problem?

    PTAD: Pensioner contacted and advised to locate a cyber café to do fingerprint option.

    ANONYMOUS:  Good day, I will like to know if my father is eligible for pension under Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS). He was appointed on July 3, 1989 and was removed on April 27, 1999.

    PTAD: No Name and Details Provided.

    SUNDAY: Good day, my name is Sunday from Cross River State. My father died since July 10, 2005 while in Police service. He is the late inspector Okimba.

    His last place of service was Akwa Ibom State. I went on to process his entitlement as his next-of-kin in 2015 in PTAD office, Abuja where I was verified and captured with pensioner number.

    But up till date, I have not been paid. Kindly help me.

    PTAD: There was incomplete documentation at the time of verification. NOK is requested to come forward with these additional documents: Enlistment form, Emolument form, Letter of Administration, Marriage Certificate, Introduction Letter from Last Command,Valid Means of Identification; NOK’s Birth Certification, and NOK’s BVN.

    ABDULLAHI: I am Abdullahi from Jos, Plateau State. My father was a staff member with the Ministry of Defence, Civilian Unit for 16 years before he died in 1995.

    I have attended various screening and verifications and the last one was in Jos in 2017. I have submitted the required documents for the payment of gratuity and pension benefits as a Next-of-Kin (NOK), but up to no avail.

    In 2020, I was called from PTAD to submit some documents, including bank accounts, which I did.

    From your publication of my case, PTAD is asking for the verification number, which I scanned and sent since then. I hope The Nation will assist me.

    PTAD: NOK should provide the deceased name and bank statement.

    OJEDIRAN: My name is Sgt. Ojediran (rtd). I retired in 1994. I learnt that PTAD has harmonised the pension allowance of IGP, DIG, and AIG without doing same for CP to rank and file.

    Please, what is the correct position on this? Thanks.

    PTAD: The Directorate is yet to receive any formal directive on the harmonisation from the relevant authority.

    DAMARIS: Good day, I am Damaris from Ikeduru Local Government Area, Imo State.

    I retired on December 1, 2000 from a primary school under SPEB. My retirement number is anonymous.

    My grade level is 128. My pension type is local government. We were owed for four years before we started getting our pay. I received my last pension pay in June 2020. Kindly help me.

    PTAD: Pensioner retired from Local Government.

    BAWA: Dear Omobola, we are the administrators of our late father Bawa. He worked at the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) from 1987 and was down size during the presidential task force of 2006. Since then, we have not been paid a Kobo. We don’t know where to go or what to do sir. Kindly help us out.

    PTAD: NOK was contacted to come for verification