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The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has announced that its online verification and enrolment application for 2021 and prospective retirees of treasury-funded federal government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) will commence on September 1.

PenCom had developed an online application to register, verify and enrol retirees of treasury-funded federal government MDAs for the purpose of computing their accrued pension rights and budgetary allocation.

It carried out a pilot run of the exercise between August 2 and 20, 2021 with selected MDAs in the six geo-political zones and the federal capital territory (FCT) in order to test-run the application with real-time data.

In a statement by the commission on Monday, it said the people eligible for the exercise include: employees of Federal Government treasury-funded MDAs who retired between January and August 2021, due to retire from September 2021, and missed the enrolment exercises in previous years.

It explained that the enrolment exercise can be carried through two options: self-assisted or through a pension fund administrator (PFA).

For those who decide to conduct it themselves, they “are required to visit PenCom’s website: www.pencom.gov.ng to initiate the online enrolment process.

“This is done by registering and capturing their employment details as well as uploading scanned copies of the required documents before proceeding to their respective Pension Fund Administrator (PFA) for physical verification and enrolment,” the statement reads.

“The step by step procedure for the Online Enrolment would be hosted on the PenCom website”.

On the flip side, “retirees/prospective retirees who are unable to complete the online registration for any reason could approach the Pension Desk Officer (PDO) of their respective MDAs or visit their PFA for assistance”.

PenCom further said the application must be completed with respective PFAs by October 29, 2021.