Ministry apologises to pensioners over payments hitch

The Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security on Friday apologized to pensioners who encountered difficulties uplifting their old-age payments from post offices.

It was responding to a news item in the October 10 edition of Stabroek News headlined `Pensioners inconvenienced after post offices run out of money’.

The ministry said that it wished to “publicly state that its policy has been for many years to facilitate the payment of Old Age Pension at post offices throughout the country,