PTAD: Resolving pensioners’ issues

MRS NWOBU:  Hello, I am Mrs. Nwobu, a former Senior Nursing Officer in the Nursing Department. I am a University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) pensioner. I went to UPTH last week and was asked to come to Abuja to get a PIN for them  to process my papers. I have called the phone numbers given to me, but there was no response. My date of appointment is July 11, 1974 and I retired in November 1995. I live in the United States and just returned. I was told to go to Abuja for initial clearance. Please, when can I come to your office, and who will be working with me, and what time of the day will that be? Thanks for your anticipated response. Also, kindly provide me with an office address.

AYODELE: RE: Underpayment of Monthly Pensions. I wish to put up a reminder that I am yet to get  neither acknowledgement nor response regarding my complaints to your organisation about three weeks ago on the above subject matter. This is after promises by your receptionists to deliver my complaints to the appropriate authority for further necessary actions. In October, last year, I was surprised to notice a huge deduction of N48,861.19 from my monthly pension of N154,015.36, for an excuse tagged overpayment of pension and which was not earlier communicated to me officially. From my concise and articulate computations of the deductions yanked, I believe that it was wrong to have carried out such deductions. By the way, I started working in 1970 and retired from service on August 1, 2005 from the Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research, Kaduna (NITR), a parastatal under the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, as a Chief Technical Officer Laboratory Instruments, on HATISS 13, Step 9.As at the time of retirement, my pension was N92,170.75. However, two years later, August 2007, to be precise, there was a 15 per cent pension increment that jerked my pension up to N105,996.36. Three years later, which was August 2010, there was another 33 per cent increment of N34,978.80 that leveraged my pension to N140,975.16. And in April, 2019, there was a consequential pension adjustment of 0.0925 per cent or N13,040.20, which finally brought my current pension to N154,015.36.But surprisingly, from October, 2023, I observed that a huge chunk of N48,861.19 monthly deductions were made till date from my pensions, with the excuse that there were some overpayments made all along, which in actual fact is not true from the in depth analysis I have proffered. The pension refund I expect from you as of April 2024 is N342,028.33, which I am believing would be paid this month. These shortfalls have been causing me a whole lot of financial setbacks. I am equally aware that a review committee was set up towards the end of last year by the Executive Secretary, PTAD to tidy these grievances which are not limited to me or my parastatal alone but to several others. Times are pretty hard for even workers not to talk of vulnerable pensioners whose pays are nothing to write home about. At this juncture, I am imploring you to use your good offices to write this wrong, by reversing the status quo and refunds made back as quickly as possible. Thanks and God bless.

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