Tag: Solutions

A NONYMOUS: I am a retired 63-year-old military pensioner. I am sending this text in respect of Akinsoto comment in The Nation newspaper Friday June 2, 2017 page 46. Akinsoto also a NIPOST pensioner where he emphasised that our military and para military colleagues were paid there 33 per cent increment arrears at once not in dribs and drabs like that of NIPOST. I want Akinsoto to know that it is not true that military pensioner paid our 33 per cent at once. Out of the 53 per cent that we are being owed, 33 per cent arrears is paid to us in two quarterly payment as of 2015. The payment of that, according to government, is expected to finish will finish this year. For God sake, a person who is expecting to be paid N276,000 at once is being paid twice quarterly (in dribs and drabs). Can the money do a reasonable project? What kind of country are we in. I have never seen where arrears is being  paid quarterly. We kept sending text message to the military pension board asking questions but no response. We serve our country Nigeria with truthfulness and faithfulness but we do not have the strength to till a soil. We are getting frustrated but we believe that God will intervene in our case and all our entitlements will be paid at once.

PTAD:The pensioner is a military pensioner and not a pensioner eligible under the Defined Benefit Scheme, DBS. With regards to the 33 per cent pension arrears, the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate recently paid an instalment owed to some of its pensioners. The categories affected are Police, Civil Service and Parastatal Pensioners. All pensioners under the Customs, Immigration and Prisons Pensions Department had already been paid the 33 per cent arrears in full since September 2016. The latest payment was made from the Service Wide Vote released two weeks ago by the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF). PTAD assures that all outstanding arrears of the 33 per cent increment will be settled as soon as additional releases are made.

EBONG: Dear Sir, your column in The Nation newspaper of Wednesday July 5  is earnestly assisting pensioners. My name is Ebong. I attended a verification exercise in Uyo Akwa Ibom State on February 7, 2017. My complaints is non harmonisation and short payment of my pensions. I submitted all the required documents for scanning. Please kindly help me so that my arrears can be paid to enable me cope in this recession period. My pension is paid up to date. Thank you.

PTAD: Your monthly pension has been harmonised and we recently paid six months of 33 per cent arrears, the balance of 12 months will be paid subject to availability of funds.

MAYALEEKE: My federal pension under the old scheme has been stopped since June 2010. I received my last pension under the old scheme from the Federal Government in May 2010. They paid me N8,748,90, per month without any increment of the past years. My name is Mayaleeke. My friend, Folajuwon has the same problem. All effort so far has failed. Kindly help.

PTAD: Mr. Folajuwon and Mr. Mayaleeke should forward their verification print-out and bank-statements from Jan, 2010 to date to enable us ascertain their claim.

ADACHI: I am Solomon Adachi. My dad died since 2007 while with the Nigerian Police Force. I was verified since 2014 but up till now, I have not been paid.

PTAD: Mr. Adachi should please visit our Head Office for the Next-of-Kin interview.

MRS OLUYEMISI: My name is Mrs Oluyemisi, from Osun State. I retired in July 2015 and I am yet to be paid my benefits. My question is that with two years salary arrears, is it going to be deducted from the lump sum to be given to us, by our PFA.

PENCOM: Good day Ma’am. Please give us more details in a clearer form, to enable us to assist you with your complaint. What kind of arrears do you mean? Promotion, salary arrears or arrears accumulated due to unpaid salaries? Also provide us with details of your place of employment, PIN and PFA. Thank you.

ANONYMOUS: I have double pin no. What can I do?

PENCOM: Good day Sir. Please write a formal complaint of this to the commission, addressing it to the National Pension Commission, Plot 174 Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja. Please make sure to attach evidence of registration with both Pension Fund Administrators. Thank you.

ANONYMOUS: Good day, please we need help. We retired, from the Federal Civil Service. Some of us retired between 2013 and 2017 respectively. We have not received any pension or gratuity. Some of us have died of frustration, while some are sick. We don’t have proper food to eat and we cannot send our children to school and meet other basic needs of life. Thanks. I want to remain Anonymity.

PENCOM: Sir, please provide us with your PIN, place of employment, dates of employment and of retirement; for us to ascertain the status of your benefits. Thank you.

OSAM: Dear Omobola, my father died since  July 10, 2005. He served last at Police Mobile Force 26 Uyo, Akwa Ibom State  as a police inspector . His name is Okimba. I did all that was required of me for his gratuity to be paid in 2006, but there was positive response.  Later in March 2015, I underwent the second police pension verification exercise and did image capturing at PTAD Maitama Abuja where all necessary documents were successfully submitted as required by screening committee as the next of kin. But up till date no payment. Please help me out of this distress.

PTAD: Dear Mr. Osam, kindly note that your late father joined the Nigeria Police Force on March 1, 1977 but died on July 10, 2005. In line with the Pension Reform Act of 2004 as amended, late Inspector Okimba falls under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) managed by the National Pension Commission (PenCom). You are therefore advised to approach late Inspector Okimba’s Pension Fund Administrators and PenCom to claim the accrued pension benefits of late Inspector Okimba.

OWARI: I am an aggrieved man. I retired from paramilitary Custom Marine Department. I was employed on November 27, 1974 and retired on January 1, 2004. I am sending this sms to remind PTAD of the non-payment of my pension. My complaint is that, since January 1, 2004 till date my pension subsistence allowance from the sinking fund both arrears and regular monthly payment has not been paid. I have been verified and captured on April 14, 2014 at (CIPO) Gwagwalada Abuja by an official who issued me my capturing number. And since then nothing has been done till date. Besides, I was also verified and captured at pension transitional arrangement directorate where I was  issued with pensioner’s verification acknowledgement form of personal data pensioner number. Please help me. I need my entitlements.

PTAD: Dear Mr. Owari, please be informed your gratuity was paid to you by the defunct CIPPO in 2008 while arrears of monthly pension from retirement January 2007 to February 2017 was paid in March 2017 by PTAD and pay rolled immediately. For more information call 09-462-1700 or log on to www.ptad.gov.ng

RUMIN: My complaint is non-payment of my late father’s gratuity, from police pension. I am the son and next of kin to late Inspector Akpagher who died in June 2005. Since then, I have not received a kobo as his pension benefits. I followed due process by attending all verification exercise where I provided all documents and information necessary but I am yet to receive my late father’s gratuity payment. I am therefore appealing to the authority concerned to consider my plight and assist me to receive my late father’s gratuity.

PTAD: Dear Mr. Rumin, please we require more documents from you to enable us determine the pension scheme of your late father. Kindly send us the letter of enlistment into the Nigeria Police Force. Kindly email the above document to complaints@ptad.gov.ng or access our pensioner’s complaint submission portal at www.ptad.gov.ng

IGBO: I retired in 1994. My federal pension as at October 2010 was N13, 866. It was cut down to N4,164.00 after a lump sum payment of N309,000 in December 2012. My pension complaint appeared in the nation newspaper. Wednesday 13/12/2017. I have made the documents you requested available to the commission more than 10 times. I have made two personal representations at the commission. I was not told what was wrong only to wait since 2010. I was present at the verification exercise here in Owerri, Imo State in 2015, yet I continue to cry, the delay continues and I continue to suffer. The documents are all there in your office.

PTAD: Dear Mr. Igbo, we have reviewed all the documents submitted following verification, and your monthly pension has been re-computed. Payment will be made as soon as funds are released for that purpose. We apologise for the delay.

Mrs Awire: I and one of my children are Next-of-Kin (NOK) to my husband who passed on on September 16, 2003. He was retired in April, 1999. He worked at the Nigeria Immigration Service. When he was in service, his salary along with his colleagues was not paid through the bank. I went to the Immigration Office to collect his pay statement and Letter of Administration from the High Court. I complained to The Nation in May, 2016. The matter was forwarded to the Directorate and I was asked to come to Abuja with my child who is also the beneficiaries. I travelled from Ilorin where we are based to Abuja in July 2016 to Abuja and my documents were verified by your officials. I was certified okay and told to expect payment in three months which is October 2016. As at today, one year and seven months the Directorate promised to pay me, I am yet to hear from the PTAD. Please, The Nation, kindly look into my case to put an end to the suffering I and my children are going through. Thanks

PTAD: Dear Mrs Awire, please be informed the Death benefit was paid into the NOKs joint Fidelity Bank Account in October 2016. Kindly confirm payment from your bank. If payment has not been received, please email the NOK’s signed and stamped original bank statement on the bank letter head, covering from October 2016 till date to complaints@ptad.gov.ng or access our pensioner’s complaint submission portal at www.ptad.gov.ng . You can also visit any of our zonal offices where complaints can be processed. For more information, call us toll free on 080-2255-7823.

Mrs Awire: One of my children and I are the next-of-kin (NOK) to my husband, who passed on in September 16, 2003. He retired in April 1999, after working at the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS). When he was in service, his salary with his colleagues were not paid through the bank. I went to the Immigration office to collect his pay slip and Letter of Administration from the High Court.

I complained to The Nation in May 2016. The matter was forwarded to the Directorate and I was asked to come to Abuja with my child, who is also a beneficiary. I travelled from Ilorin, where we are based, to Abuja in July 2016 and my documents were verified by your officials. I was certified okay and told to expect payment in three months, which was October 2016. As at today, one year and four  months, which the Directorate promised to pay me, I am yet to hear from PTAD. Please, The Nation, kindly look into my case to put an end to the suffering my children and I  are going through. Thanks

PTAD: Dear Mrs Awire, please be informed that the Death benefit was paid into the NOKs joint Fidelity Bank Account in October 2016. Kindly confirm payment from your bank. If payment has not been received, please email the NOK’s signed and stamped original bank statement on the bank letter head, covering from October 2016 till date to complaints @ptad.gov.ng, or access our pensioner’s complaint submission portal at www.ptad.gov.ng . You can also visit any of our zonal offices where complaints can be processed. For more information call us toll free on 080-2255-7823.

DIOKA: Dear Omobola, my old mother, Elizabeth, who retired as a primary school teacher in 1984 (Imo State), is paid a monthly pension of less than N3000. Can you believe it? What can N3000 purchase in today’s Nigeria? The pension is not even regular. It sometimes comes only when the Paris Club Fund is paid to states. Please can you press on the government to do a comprehensive review of the pension law, especially to make state governments set up pension commissions in their states? Thank you. Chukwuma Dioka, Imo State.

PTAD: Dear Mr. Dioka, Please be informed that your mother is NOT a PTAD Pensioner as primary school teachers are not under PTAD. She should kindly meet her state pension office to resolve her complaint. For more information log on to www.ptad.gov.ng

ADEGOKE: Dear Omobola, my name is Adegoke. I retired from Customs in 2007. I want to know when pension issue of 20.37 per cent being balance of 53.37 per cent of 2010 pension increase arrears from July 2010 to date will be addressed and cleared. Arrears of 33 per cent out of the 53.37 per cent pension increase of July 2010 has been defrayed by the PTAD in 2016, leaving the balance of 20.37 per cent arrears from July 2010 to date unpaid. What is responsible for the non-payment? Could it be as a result of budgetary constraints? What has scaled down to pensioners disadvantage by the 2010 pension increase from 53.37 per cent to 33 per cent? Has arrangement reached advance stage towards the payment of the 20.37 per cent arrears and when will it be paid? Please PTAD pay pensioners this arrears of 20.37 per cent from July 2010 to date to put smile on our faces, or explain lucidly the true and proper position of this matter to us. Thanks.

PTAD: In 2014, the Federal Government approved an increment in pensions by 33 per cent pension payment increase, effective July 2010, and PTAD has paid Customs increment in full. For more information log on to www.ptad.gov.ng

SYLVANUS: Good day Omobola, let me refresh your memory on the two cases in which you promised to intervene. I served Lagos State from 1974 to 1983, when I transferred to Anambra, my home state. I held the post of Assistant Director. When I finally retired from University service in 2001, Lagos State was asked to provide my pension benefits based on apportionment. But there was no response up till April 2013, when I was paid about N1 million as gratuity and pension arrears. Now I am being owed 48 months pension by TEPO, Ikeja.

Under Pension Act 1979, Federal Government took responsibility for pension of retirees in Ondo State, where I entered teaching in missionary schools from 1960 to 1976. On retirement, based on apportionment, a copy of my computed pension benefits was sent to PTAD, but no response up till now. At both states verification centres, no attention was given to me. Please Omobola, help an old man. God bless you. Sylvanus.

PTAD: Dear Mr. Udeh, more information is needed to resolve your complaint. Can you confirm if you have completed a PTAD verification exercise? If yes, kindly provide us with your full name & Bank account details. If not, also provide us with your full name. In addition to the following documents; letter of first appointment, letter of last promotion; letter of retirement; signed and stamped original bank statement on the bank letter head , covering Jan 2001 till date are required. Kindly email the above documents to complaints@ptad.gov.ng or access our pensioner’s complaint submission portal at www.ptad.gov.ng. You can also visit any of our zonal offices where complaints can be processed. For more information call us toll free on 080-2255-7823.

BABATUNDE: My name is Babatunde, I retired from NIPOST in July 23, 2005. My contribution in the Contributory Scheme was up to N46,338.92 of which I have applied for, up till now, I am yet to be paid. My pay slips photocopies were forwarded to PTAD in Abuja.

PTAD: Kindly be informed that the PTAD does not manage pensioners under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS). Please forward the following documents to determine if in fact, you are a PTAD pensioner; letter of first appointment, letter of last promotion and letter of retirement. Kindly email the above documents to complaints@ptad.gov.ng or access our pensioner’s complaint submission portal at www.ptad.gov.ng you can also visit any of our zonal offices where complaints can be processed for more information call us toll free on 080-2255-7823.

OSAM: Dear  Omobola, my father died on July 10, 2005. He served last at Police Mobile Force 26, Uyo, as an  inspector. His name is Okimba. I did all that was required of me for his gratuity to be paid in 2006, but te efforts proved abortive. Later in March 2015, I underwent the second police pension verification exercise and did image capturing at PTAD Maitama Abuja, where all necessary documents were successfully submitted as required by screening committee, as the next of kin. But up till date no payment. Please help me out of this distress.

PTAD: Dear Mr. Osam, kindly note that your late father joined the Nigeria Police Force on 1st March, 1977, but died on 10th July, 2005. In line with the Pension Reform Act of 2004 as amended, the late Inspector Okimba falls under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) managed by the National Pension Commission (PenCom). You are, therefore, advised to approach the late Inspector Okimba’s Pension Fund Administrators and PenCom to claim the accrued pension benefits of late Inspector Okimba.

EBONG: Dear Madam1, your column in The Nation of every Wednesday is really assisting pensioners.

My name is Ebong. I attended a verification in Uyo Akwa Ibom State on February 7, 2017. My complaints are: the non-harmonisation and short-payment of my pensions.  I submitted all the required documents for scanning. Please  help me so that my arrears can be paid to enable me cope in this recession. My pension is not paid up to date. Thank you.

PTAD: Your monthly pension has been harmonised and we recently paid six months of 33 per cent  arrears; the balance of 12 months will be paid subject to availability of funds.

ANNONYMOUS: I am a retired 63-year-old military pensioner. I am sending this text in respect of Akinsoto’s comment in The Nation of Friday, June 2, 2017 (page 46) with the title: Pension complaints and solution.

Akinsoto, also a NIPOST pensioner, emphasised that our military and para-military colleagues were paid their 33 per cent increment arrears at once not in dribs and drabs like that of NIPOST workers.

I want Akinsoto to know that it is not true that Military Pensions Board paid our 33 per cent at once. Of the 53 per cent that we are being owed, 33 per cent arrears was paid to us in two quarterly payments as at 2015.

The payment, according to the government, is expected to be completed this year. For God’s sake, a person who is expecting to be paid N276,000 at once is being paid twice quarterly. Can the money execute a reasonable project? What kind of country are we in? I have never seen where arrears are paid quarterly. We kept sending text messages to the Military Pension Board asking questions but yet no response. We served our country  faithfully. At the moment, we do not have the strength to till the soil. We are getting frustrated, but we believe that God will intervene in our case and all our entitlements will be paid at once.

PTAD:The pensioner is a Military pensioner and not a pensioner eligible under the Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS). With regards to the 33 per cent pension arrears, the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate recently paid an instalment owed to some of its pensioners. The categories affected are Police, Civil Service and Parastatal Pensioners. All pensioners under the Customs, Immigration and Prisons Pensions Department had already been paid the 33 per cent arrears in full since September 2016. The latest payment was made from the Service Wide Vote released two weeks ago by the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF). PTAD assures that all outstanding arrears of the 33 per cent increment will be settled as soon as additional releases are made.

MAYALEEKE: My name is Mayaleeke. My friend, Folajuwon, and I have the same problem. My federal pension under the old scheme has been stopped since June 2010. I received my last pension under the old scheme from the Federal Government in May 2010. They paid me N8,748,90 monthly without any increment of the past years. All effort so far has failed. Kindly help.

PTAD: Mr. Folajuwon and Mr. Mayaleeke should forward their verification print-out and bank-statements from Januray 2010 to Date to enable us ascertain their claim.

ADACHI: I am Solomon Adachi. My dad died in 2007 while with the Nigerian Police Force. I was verified since 2014 but up till now, I have not been paid.

PTAD: Mr. Adachi should please visit our Head Office for the Next-of-Kin interview.

MRS OLUYEMISI: My name is Mrs Oluyemisi, from Osun State. I retired in July 2015. I am yet to be paid my benefits. My question is: with two years’salary arrears, is it going to be deducted from the lump sum to be giving to us by our PFA.

PENCOM: Good day, Ma’am. Please give us more details to enable us to assist you. May we ask: What kind of arrears do you mean? Promotion salary arrears or arrears accumulated due to unpaid salaries? Also provide us with details of your place of employment, PIN and PFA. Thank you.

A NNONYMOUS: I have double PIN number. What can I do?

PENCOM: Good day, Madam, Please write to the National Pension Commission, Plot 174 Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja.  Make sure you attach evidence of your registration with both the Pension Fund Administrators. Thank you.

ANNONYMOUS: Please we eed help. Some of us retired from the federal civil service between 2013 and 2017. We have not received any pension or gratuity since then. Some of us have died of frustration, while others are sick. We don’t have proper food to eat and we cannot send our children to school and meet other basic needs of life. Thanks. I want to remain anonymous.

PENCOM: Sir, provide us with your PIN, place of employment, dates of employment and retirement to enable us to ascertain the status of your benefits. Thank you.

DIOKA: Dear Omobola, my old mother, Elizabeth, who retired as a primary school teacher in 1984 (Imo State), is paid a monthly pension of less than N3000.  Can you believe it? What can N3000 purchase in today Nigeria? The pension is not even regular. It sometimes comes only when the Paris Club Fund is paid to states. Please help press on the government  to do a comprehensive review of the pension law, especially to make state governments set up pension commissions in their states. Thank you. Chukwuma Dioka, Imo State.

THE NATION: The newspaper will intervene. Do await response from PTAD. Watch out for the newspaper next week for your response and subsequently, every Wednesday as we update you with pension news.

 Okimba: Dear Omobola, my father died on July 10, 2005. He served last at the Police Mobile Force 26 Uyo as a police inspector. His name is Okimba. I did all that was required  for his gratuity to be paid in 2006, but response proved abortive. Later in March 2015, I attended the second police pension verification exercise and did image capturing at PTAD Maitama, Abuja, where all necessary documents were successfully submitted as required by screening committee as the next of kin. But up till date no payment. Please help me out of this distress situation.

THE NATION: The newspaper will intervene. Do await response from PTAD. Watch out for the newspaper next week for your response and subsequently every Wednesday as we update you with pension news.

OWARI: I am an aggrieved man. I retired from paramilitary custom marine department. I was employed in November 27, 1974 and retired in January 1, 2004. I am sending this short message to remind the PTAD of the non-payment of my pension. My complain is that since January 1, 2004 till date my pension subsistence allowance from the sinking fund, both arrears and regular monthly payment, has not yet being paid to me. I have been verified and captured on April 14,  2014 at (CIPO) Gwagwalada Abuja and was issued my capturing number. Since then nothing has been done till date. Besides, I was also verified and captured at pension transitional arrangement directorate, where I was also issued with pensioner’s verification acknowledgement form of personal data pensioner number. Please help me. I need my entitlements.

THE NATION: The newspaper will intervene. Do await response from PTAD. Watch out for the newspaper next week for your response and subsequently every Wednesday as we update you with pension news.

RUMIN: My complaints is non-payment of my late father’s gratuity from police pension. I am the son and next of kin to the late Inspector Akpagher, who died in June 2005. Since then I have not received a kobo as his pension benefits. I followed the due process by attending all verification exercises where I provided all documents and information necessary, but I am yet to receive my late father’s gratuity. I am, therefore, appealing  to the authority concerned to consider my plight and assist me to receive my late father’s gratuity.

THE NATION: The newspaper will intervene. Do await response from PTAD. Watch out for the newspaper next week for your response and subsequently every Wednesday as we update you with pension news.

ADEGOKE: Dear omobola, my name is Adegoke. I retired from Customs in 2007. I want to know when pension issue of 20.37 per cent being the balance of 53.37 per cent of 2010 pension increase arrears from July 2010 to date will be addressed and cleared. Arrears of 33 per cent out of the 53.37 per cent pension increase of July 2010 has been defrayed by the PTAD in year 2016. Leaving the balance of 20.37 per cent arrears from July 2010 to date unpaid. What is  responsible for the non-payment? Could it be as a result of budgetary constraints? What has scaled down to pensioners disadvantage the year 2010 pension increase from 53.37 per cent to 33 per cent? Has the arrangement reached advance stage towards payment of the 20.37 per cent arrears and when will it be paid? Please PTAD pay pensioners this arrears of 20.37 per cent from July 2010 to date to put smile on our faces or explain lucidly the true and proper position of  this matter to us. Thanks.

THE NATION: The newspaper will intervene. Do await response from PTAD. Watch out for the newspaper next week for your response and subsequently every Wednesday as we update you with pension news.

IGBO: I retired in 1994. My Federal pension as at October 2010 was N13, 866. It was cut down to N4,164.00 after a lump sum payment of N309,000 in December 2012. My pension complaint appeared in The Nation newspaper. Wednesday 13/12/2017. I have made the documents you requested available to the commission more than 10 times. I have made two personal representations at the commission. I was not told what was wrong only to wait since 2010. I was present at the verification exercise here in Owerri, Imo State in 2015, yet I continue to cry as the delay continues and I continue to suffer. The documents are all there in your office.

THE NATION: The newspaper will intervene. Do await response from PTAD. Watch out for the newspaper next week for your response and subsequently every Wednesday as we update you with pension news.

BABATUNDE: My name is Babatunde, I retired from NIPOST in July 23, 2005. My contribution in the Contributory Scheme is up to N46,338.92  of which I have applied for, up till now, I am yet to be paid. My pay slips photocopies were forwarded to the PTAD in Abuja.

THE NATION: The newspaper will intervene. Do await response from PTAD. Watch out for the newspaper next week for your response and subsequently every Wednesday as we update you with pension news.

ANONYMOUS: I have double pin number. What can I do?

PENCOM: Good day Sir. Please write a formal complaint, addressing it to the National Pension Commission, Plot 174 Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja. Please ensure to attach evidence of registration with both Pension Fund Administrators. Thank you.

ANONYMOUS: Good day, please we need help. We retired from the Federal Government civil service. Some of us retired between 2013 and 2017 respectively. We have not received any pension or gratuity. Some of us have died of frustration, while some are sick. We don’t have proper food to eat and we cannot send our children to school and meet other basic needs of life. Thanks. I want to remain Anonymous.

PENCOM: Sir, please provide us with your PIN, place of employment, dates of employment and retirement; for us to ascertain the status of your benefits. Thank you.

SAHEED: Dear Sir/Ma, my name is Saheed. I have part of my pension with NSITF/NPF. In my Sterling bank account, I have N87,454.82. Please note that not a single kobo has been paid from their office on Ikorodu road to Elephant House, Alausa, where I was asked to open an account with Zenith with all documents, but I was still not paid. I travelled to Abuja office labour house still no show. Please kindly help me since this fund had been hanging somewhere since 2004. By now, under normal circumstances, the money would have generated returns for 13 years. Thank you for taking time to read my story.

PENCOM: Good day Sir. Can you please give us clearer details of your issue? Thank you.

EBONG: Dear Sir, your column in The Nation of Wednesday July 5th is earnestly assisting pensioners. My name is Ebong. I attended a verification exercise in Uyo Akwa Ibom State on February 7, 2017. My complaint is non harmonisation and short payment of my pensions.  I submitted all the required documents for scanning. Please kindly help me so that my arrears can be paid to enable me cope in this recession period. My pension is paid up to date. Thank you.

PTAD OKONDO: Your monthly pension has been harmonised and we recently paid six months of 33 per cent  arrears, the balance of 12 months will be paid subject to availability of funds.

ANONYMOUS: I am a 63-year-old military pensioner. I am sending this text in respect of Akinsoto comment in The Nation Friday June 2, 2017 page 46 with the tittle pension complaints and solution. Akinsoto also a NIPOST pensioner where he emphasised that our military and para military colleagues were paid there 33 per cent increment arrears at once not in dribs and drabs like that of NIPOST. I want Akinsoto to know that it is not true that military pension paid our 33 per cent at once. Out of the 53 per cent that we are being owed, 33 per cent arrears is paid to us in two quarterly payment as of 2015. The payment of that according to government is expected to finish this year.

For God’s sake a person, who is expecting to be paid N276,000 at once, is being paid twice quarterly (in dribs and drabs). Can the money do a reasonable project? What kind of country are we in? I have never seen where arrears are being paid quarterly.  We kept sending text messages to the military pension board, asking questions but no response. We serve our country with truthfulness and faithfulness, but we do not have the strength to till the soil. We are getting frustrated, but we believe that God  will intervene in our case and all our entitlements will be paid at once.

PTAD OKONDO: The pensioner is a military pensioner and not a pensioner eligible under the Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS). With regards to the 33 per cent pension arrears, the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate recently paid an instalment owed to some of its pensioners. The categories affected are Police, Civil Service and Parastatal Pensioners. All pensioners under the Customs, Immigration and Prisons Department had already been paid the 33 per cent arrears in full since September 2016.

The latest payment was made from the Service Wide Vote released two weeks ago by the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF). PTAD assures that all outstanding arrears of the 33 per cent increment will be settled as soon as additional releases are made.

MAYALEEKE: My Federal pension under the old scheme has been stopped since June 2010. I received my last pension under the old scheme from the Federal Government in May 2010. They paid me N8,748,90, per month without any increment of the past years. My name is Mayaleeke. My friend, Folajuwon has the same problem. All effort so far has failed. kindly help.

PTAD OKONDO: Mr. Folajuwon and Mr. Mayaleeke should forward their verification print-out and bank-statements from Jan, 2010 to date to enable us ascertain their claim.