The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has revealed that it had developed an online enrollment application for the registration, verification and enrollment of prospective retirees.
This online verification platform became necessary due to the challenges encountered in the physical annual verification and enrollment exercise as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and the need to put in place safety measures.
This was made known by PenCom’s Commissioner of Technical Department, Mr Anyim Nyerere, during the opening ceremony of Pension Desk Officers (PDOs) Workshop for Treasury Fund Ministries, Departments and Agencies, in Abuja, according to NAN.
What the PenCom Commissioner is saying
Nyerere said that it was an established norm within PenCom to conduct physical annual retirement verification and enrollment exercise on the Federal Government employees of MDAs scheduled for retirement within the next fiscal year.
Nyerere said that the conduct of physical annual retirement verification and enrollment exercise was aimed at validating and determining the retirees’ accrued pension liabilities for budgetary allocation by the Federal Government.
He said, “PenCom regrets its inability to conduct this physical annual pre-retirement enrolment exercise due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The need to observe the necessary safety measures as directed by the government thus becomes inevitable.
“The PDOs and the public within the pension industry will appreciate the challenges in not conducting the physical pre-retirement enrolment exercise. Hence, the commission has developed an online enrollment application with the capabilities to register, verify and enroll prospective retirees and provide the guidance note accordingly which will help to compute the retirees’ retirement benefits.
“This application which will be hosted on the commission’s website will enable prospective retirees log on to register with their details on the Retiree Registration Module (RRM).’’
He pointed out that the idea behind the new initiative was to ensure that the exercise did not affect the validation and determination of the accrued pension liabilities of the would-be retirees for government budgetary purposes.
He said that the workshop would help equip the PDOs with the requisite knowledge on how the retiree registration module operates for the smooth implementation of the online enrollment application adding that all necessary safeguards, modalities have equally been put in place for the exercise.
What you should know
It can be recalled that a few days ago, PenCom informed all its stakeholders, particularly Treasury Funded Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved PenCom’s submissions on the payment of some critical aspects of outstanding pension liabilities of the Federal Government under the contributory pension scheme.
I commend Pencom for this initiative.
Am business man please help
Where is the page for verification
I commend PENCOM for this new initiative, but my complaint is that I retired in the Month of February, 2019 and up till date I have not been paid my Gratuity, each time I visit the NPF PENSION OFFICE, I will be told that my ACCRUED RIGHT has not been forwarded by PENCOM. So I don’t know what the problem is. Thanks.
When did you do your verification,nevertheless this is my phone number for more clearity 08100357906
When us the verification exercise commencing? I retired since January 2021 and have been asking for this exercise since last year.
@Mrs chinyere, kindly contact me via email address oluyemicoker101@gmail.com or hotline line 08160735494
@mr okenyi ,kindly write pencom or visit pencom office in your location, or call 08160735494
I don’t know why Ibtc pension always reduces our lump sum to 25% whenever we ask for annuity and give 50% when we agreed to do programme withdrawal.
Please explain to me pencom.
That is ibtc way oooo.. is an act of jealousy. Pencom will soon look into this case.
When will the platform take off? I retired from Service March, 2021. Is quite pitiable and unreasonable for some person to think that those who retired from Service already have huge funds to play with hence all these delays in the verification exercise. Delay in payment of retirement benefits by now should be thing of the past if we actually care for Retirees.
Kindly send mail to oluyemicoker101@gmail.com or alonge2030@gmail.com for more information on verification
I hope this exercise include npa cos am yet to hear anything from the office