Retired workers to be paid

Department of Personnel Management secretary Taies Sansan says K50.78 million will be paid out this week to 548 retired public servants from 18 government agencies.
Sansan said this was the second batch of retirees under the Public Service Retirement Exercise for 2022.
A majority of the retirees were from the Police Department with 329 retired police personnel and public servants.
Sansan said the total cost was the combination of gross payments and personal emolument liabilities, excluding their Nambawan Super retirement funds.
She said the officers were identified by their agencies and their names were submitted to the department for validation and verification for payment.
Sansan said the retirement exercise had been ongoing since 2019 of which more than 2, 600 public servants had so far been paid K119.7 million.
“We are continuing the retirement exercise this year,” she said.
“The government had allocated K200 million in the 2022 annual budget to retire aging public servants and my department will continue to coordinate with all line agencies to ensure this process is executed well this year.”
Sansan said that the department had coordinated the public sector retirement programme following a National Executive Council decision in 2017, which had seen the development of a whole government approach undertaken to ensure all public servants who had reached the compulsory retirement age of 65 or those that were required to retire on medical grounds were paid out and put off the pay roll.