Kaduna Government Says It Has Commenced Paying Pensioners Without Bank Accounts

The Kaduna state government has announced the commencement of processes for the payment of beneficiaries of retirement and death benefits who do not have bank accounts .

Salamatu Isah, executive secretary, Kaduna State Pension Bureau, in a statement said the beneficiaries would be identified by local government pension desk officers as well as their counterparts at various ministries, departments and agencies of government.

Isah said that 112 of the beneficiaries were in batch 21 of state pensioners while 134 local government pensioners fall under batch 19 of the category.

She added that verification payment would be done next week at various zonal headquarters.

The Kaduna state government had recently announced that it released N920 million for the settlement of outstanding pension liabilities, which include death benefits and gratuity.

In the payment schedule, state pensioners were expected to get N400 million while local government beneficiaries would receive N520 million.