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N14.5trn Pension Fund not idle —PenCom

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ADEKUNLE ADESUJI
TheNational Pension Commission (PenCom), on Thursday disclosed that federal pensioners will no longer face problem of delayed pension payment after retirement .
It also stated that the N14.5trillion Pension Fund is not idle due to right investments made of them .
These were disclosed by Director-General of PenCom, Dr. Aisha Dahir- Umar who appeared before the Senate Committee on Finance currently interfacing with government agencies on proposals for the 2023 – 2025 Medium Term Expenditure Frame Work ( MTEF ) and Fiscal Strategy Paper ( FSP) .
She said  backlog of  accrued rights component  of  pension payments to pensioners causing delay in payment over the years is almost cleared by the Federal Government .
According to her, within the last 17 years , the Federal Government has been paying N49billion per month to offset the accrued rights backlog of pensioners .
“Late payment of pension to pensioners will be a thing of the past very soon as required steps in that direction have been taken by the Federal Government whose retirees are affected”, she said .
She however advised pensioners to carry out required documentation a year to their retirement in fast tracking the whole process.
She informed the committee that the N14.5trillion available Pension Fund is not idle as N9 .5trillion out of it , is invested in Federal government security , N1.23trillion in Equity shares while 35% of the fund is invested in money market .
The Committee however said the yearly repeated N102million overhead subvention given the agency by the Federal Government will be removed aside the N26billion yearly inserted into the Commission budget  without cash backing .

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