‘7,000 Pension Cases Still Pending’

Alhaji Bukar Goni-Aji,  Head of the Civil Service of the Federation

The federal government  Monday disclosed that about 7,000 unresolved pension cases are still pending, while about 1,000 have been cleared, making it a total of 8,000 pension complaints, which was brought before it.

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoSCF), Alhaji Bukar Goni-Aji, disclosed this in Abuja, at the inauguration of the newly-constituted 25-man, Federal Civil Service Pension Complaints Resolution Committee.

Goni-Aji said the mandate of the committee was to address pensioners’ complaints at the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation and state pensioners with federal share.

He noted that out of about 8,000 complaints received so far, the Civil Service Pension Commission had been able to resolve 1,000 of such cases.

He listed some of the complains to include omission of pensioners’ names from the payroll, Non- payment of gratuity and death benefits, harmonisation of six per cent and 15 per cent for some pensioners, non enrolment for monthly pension.

The HoS further disclosed that activities of unscrupulous elements that tried to penetrate the system led to 28 fake complaints being uncovered, 10 of them from National Union of Pensioners.