Validation of Pensioners and Claimants in Luwero district was well responded to as a result of the CAO’s Office being passionate about the Ministry’s effort to bring such services near to the people By 8.00 am majority of the pensioners and Claimants had gathered to be validated by the Ministry Team. This was a very

During the ongoing Pensioners Census and Validation exercise that kicked off country wide and still on for some district. A team documenting and taking on scene records visited Dokolo district which had only 08 pensioners and claimants all had presented themselves for validation.

Out of the 18 pensioners and claimants that had missed out the validation in April 2017 , 12 were validated and the 06 who did not attend were either in Kampala and would be validated there or had family issues to sort out for Administrative letters.

The Under Secretary Ministry of Public Service Dan Mugulusi who represented the Permanent Secretary called upon participants to take records as essential and important . Institutions are likely to collapse if the management of records is not done professionally. Mugulusi called for the team to escalate this knowledge to other staff. He warned institutions that

Pensioners census and Biometric validation has kicked off at Ministry headquarters with a big bang of pensioners responding to this important call.

Ministry of Public Service has embarked on cleanup of the active payroll as well as the pension payroll. As a result all employees on the payroll were subjected to a compulsory biometric validation and matching of the information with NIRA database. Unvalidated employees were consequently deactivated from payroll and presented to the Inspectorate of Government