Pension: PTAD Hits 80% Coverage

Member, House of Representative Committee on Pension, Alhaji Lawan Abubakar, says the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has recorded over 80 per cent success in its ongoing verification.

He said this while addressing newsmen at the PTAD Verification Centre in Gombe State.

Abubakar said the way things were moving was a great achievement to the pension scheme.

“Unlike what we have been seeing before, both pensioners and the stakeholders were happy for the exercise.

“We are happy because all the union leaders were at the centres we visited. “ Some of the pensioners we interacted with told us that this was a sign of seriousness exhibited by the Federal Government.

This was a sign of seriousness; people were coming from Borno and Yobe to Yola to the verification centre,’’ he said.

According to him, those that have problems with their banks have been taken there for verification.

He assured them that PTAD would do everything humanly possible to ensure that their entitlements were paid when due.

“We in the House Committee on Pension will not relent in addressing the plight of pensioners.’’