Tag Archives: pensioners

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government workers and pensioners have called for the digitization of the pension scheme to ease access to their funds. A number of civil servants and pensioners interviewed by our reporter say the pension sector in the country is very slow largely because of the myriad …

Kabarole, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kabarole district is likely to return 600 million shillings meant for pensioners because of the failure by the beneficiaries to submit their names and proper identification documents. Kabarole Chief Administrative Officer, Phionah Sanyu explains that the district received 1 billion shillings this financial year for …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil servants and pensioners must receive their December 2019 salaries by the 20th in time for christmas, government has ordered. In a letter to accounting officers in different ministries, departments and agencies, Secretary to the Treasury Keith Muhakanizi said Public Service submitted payrolls  …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of East African Community Affairs Permanent Secretary Edith Mwanje has been tasked to explain a failure to utilize funding that was allocated for the payment of pensioners. The ministry received an allocation of 31 billion Shillings, during the financial year 2017/2018, to clear …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The return of shillings 1.7 billion that was meant for pensioners to the consolidated fund by the Defense Ministry in the 2017/2018 financial year has irked members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The issue came to the fore on Thursday during an interface between …