Redress injustice done to these pensioners

In order to prune the number of public servants, the government at the time offered special considerations to those public servants who opt to retire in keeping with the Public Adminstration Circular No. 44/90 of 18. 10. 1990. The circular speaks for itself about the concessions offered.

A public servant who had completed 20 years had been offered 90% of his last drawn salary as monthly pension as per paragraph 3 of the said circular as a special concession. This would mean that he is entitled to all the benefits of a public servant who retires reaching 60 years of age. However, quite unfortunately, the Department of Pensions had completely ignored the instructions of the said circular when calculating our pension anomalies, both in 2015 and 2019, thus depriving us of our actual dues causing a great injustice.

The yardstick adopted in calculating pension anomalies of those who have retired reaching the age of 60 with 30 years service should have been followed, giving the special concession granted to them by the said circular but this has not been done.

Our appeals to the Director of Pensions, individually and collectively and through pensioners’ associations have brought no relief. Sadly a good number of those who retired under this circular have already passed away.

We appeal to the Prime Minister who is also the Minister of Public Administration and his able Ministry Secretary to look into our grievances and grant us some redress so that our longstanding and legitimate dues are paid to us.