Dear Editor,
As a concerned NIS pensioner and re the latest fraud, I am suggesting to the authorities that they make part of the investigations public by publishing the names of all their deceased pensioners according to the records within the last five years.
They can request relatives or friends to come forward if they are aware of deceased pensioners who are not on the list.
Yours faithfully,
(Name and address provided)
Come forward and do what – ask for outstanding dues?! Guyana needs to comprehensively revamp its record keeping systems which are linked to birth certificates, passports, identification cards, marriage certificates, and death certificates. This will then help to sort out taxes and national insurance issues.
This is a joke on the Guyanese people. Are we a dead living or a living dead. Why is NIS paying money to people who passed away for nearly five years and who knows how long. Fire the head man at NIS. Let the pensioners run this department. Clean Clean Clean all the government agencies. I am fed up.
Those responsible for this fraud should be shown no mercy. To rob the dead is one thing. How do we know that the living Pensioners are not being robbed also. Several times this writer had to challenge NIS about payment of monthly pension to his bank account. Why should this be! SUSPICIOUS.
In any government system a few will try to defraud the system ,but the government must be in a position to investigate quickly and let the criminal face the music .set then up .