What is involved in the processing of retirement benefits?

1. Creation of Retirement Plans by the respective Vote immediately an employee is recruited and accessed on the salary payroll;
2. Submission of PSF 18, a bank form and bank statement Six months prior to retirement by the prospective retiring officer;
3. Creation of a Retirement Request by the Human Resource at Vote on behalf of the retiring officer;
4. Approval and authorization of transaction on the system by the PS/ MoPS;
5. Validation and Approval of Retirement Request by the Vote’s Responsible Officer;
6. Verification and Validation of Retirement requests by the HR at Ministry of Public Service;
7. Approval of Retirement Requests by the Commissioner HRP at Ministry of Public Service;
8. Computation of benefits by Assessment Officers at Ministry of Public Service;
9. Auditing transactions by Auditors at the Ministry of Public;
10. Authorization of computed benefits by the Commissioner/ Compensation at MoPS;
11. Calculation of Pension payroll and transmission of payment details for eventual payment through IFMS;

Note: With full decentralization coming, all these steps would be concluded at the respective votes except for the calculation which will remain at the Pension Authority, the Ministry of Public Service.