The Federal Ombudsman Ejaz Ahmad Qureshi taking cognizance of complaints against delay in disbursement of Pension by AGPR by different ministries constituted a Monitoring Committee under the headship of Mr. Muhammad Ayub Tarin, Senior Advisor and former Additional Auditor General to evaluate the implementation status of pension reforms and to figure out as to how the pension payment process could be further simplified to facilitate pensioners.
The committee summoned the AGPR, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of National Health Services, Federal Directorate of Education and Association for the Welfare of Retired Persons (AWRP) for this purpose.
Mr. Tarin said that the pensioner alongwith their family members are still facing great financial difficulties due to delay in finalization of pension cases.
The representative of AGPR informed that although under the directions of WMS, Pension Cells have already been established in all Ministries and Divisions but still lapses were noted in submission of pension cases.
However, in family pension cases, payment of pension is delayed due to some legal issues i.e. declaration of legal heirs, non-availability of bank account of the widow and eligibility of family members.
The AGPR assured to finalize the pension cases within 30 days from the day of submission of documents.
