PTAD Promises Prompt Payment Of Federal Retirees

The Pension Tradi
tional Arrangement  Directorate (PTAD) has promised retired Federal South geo-political zone of the prompt payment of their  pension.
The Director General of PTAD, Neillie Mayshak, gave the assurance during the recent verification exercise in Rivers and Bayelsa  States  retirees of Federal Civil Service.
Mayshak said the ongoing nationwide pensioners verification exercise was determined to met an end to the usual agony experienced by the retired federal civil servants as regards  payment of their pensions as at when due.
She said that PTAD is carrying out the verification  exercise all over the six geo political  zones of the country  with the intention of having a data bank  of retirees of Federal Civil  and Police Pensioners.
The Director General said that the hiccups experienced in the payment of pensioners will soon be over at the end of the verification exercise.
She said the exercise was aimed at capturing pensioners including police pensioners that  retired from service from 2007 downwards.
Mayshak said the exercise is also aimed at assisting PTAD to check the usual incidence of ghost workers syndrome among pensioners.
She said henceforth real pensioners identified would be paid their pension without delay as necessary steps are so far being taken to ensure prompt  payment by the Directorate.

Philip Okparaji