By Sue-Ann Wayow
THE National Insurance Board Trinidad and Tobago (NIBTT) has reduced the number of outstanding information requests including for senior citizens pensions to 175.
The announcement came from Minister of the People, Social Development and Family Services Vandana Mohit on Thursday.
Speaking at the post-Cabinet meeting, she gave an update regarding the outstanding applications for pensions which stemmed into thousands.
She said the decrease to 175 came from a total of 6,461 inclusive of 2,300 senior citizens pension queries.
The decrease was across all benefit categories as at Wednesday.
“This achievement is not one that is coincidental but it is the result of deliberate action and effective governance by your government of Trinidad and Tobago,” Mohit said.
She thanked three ministries for assisting the reducing the backlog and citizens for their patience.
Mohit also asked that citizens with immigration queries bear a little while longer as the ministry will be working on those as soon as possible.
When asked what caused the reduction so quickly, Mohit said her staff and the NIB staff worked over the long weekend to ensure that by Monday at 2 pm, a report was submitted to her ministry.
She said, “Yesterday we met and we are working on other issues but this is tremendous and I am very happy to report this to our citizens.”
According to Mohit, there were 2,292 queries pending further information for the processing of Senior Citizens’ Pensions as it related to the NIB.
There were also 1,438 immigration queries outstanding due a separate agreement with the Immigration Division.
