{"id":58122,"date":"2024-12-17T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T07:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58122"},"modified":"2024-12-17T09:43:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T09:43:54","slug":"niger-state-pensioners-to-receive-7-5-refund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/17\/niger-state-pensioners-to-receive-7-5-refund\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger State Pensioners to Receive 7.5% Refund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pension Fund Administrators in Niger State will begin refunding the 7.5% contributions from the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), to exempted pensioners, following approval from the National Pension Commission.<br \/>\nThe Director General of the Niger State Pension Board, Mallam Nasiru Saidu Namaska, disclosed this during the payment of gratuity to Batch Nine beneficiaries in Minna.<br \/>\nHe stated that Pension Fund Administrators would issue a letter of no objection this week, allowing the refund process to commence, with completion targeted for December 2024.<br \/>\nNamaska commended Governor Umar Mohammed Bago for prioritizing retirees&#8217; benefits and assured prompt payment of outstanding entitlements.<br \/>\nHe added that retired permanent secretaries omitted from Batch Nine would be included in Batch Ten.<br \/>\nHe urged retirees to remain patient, emphasizing that all benefits would be paid as due.<br \/>\nNamaska also announced the commencement of the AM ALIVE verification exercise in January 2025, requiring pensioners to verify their status at any bank of their choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu Pension Fund Administrators in Niger State will begin refunding the 7.5% contributions from the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), to exempted pensioners, following approval from the National Pension Commission. The Director General of the Niger State Pension Board, Mallam Nasiru Saidu Namaska, disclosed this during the payment of gratuity to Batch Nine beneficiaries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58131,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58122\/revisions\/58131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}