{"id":38695,"date":"2017-01-09T10:32:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T08:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=38695"},"modified":"2017-01-09T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T08:32:24","slug":"government-embarks-on-headcount-of-pensioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/01\/09\/government-embarks-on-headcount-of-pensioners\/","title":{"rendered":"Government embarks on headcount of pensioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development is conducting a head count of all pensioners to verify and clean up data on pensioners.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson in the Ministry, Alfred Kutengule, has confirmed the development describing it as a normal exercise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aim of the exercise is to have clean data on pensioners so that payment of pension is made to the legitimate pensioners,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As of December, all districts except Mwanza, Neno, Ntcheu, Dedza, Mchinji and Likoma were already covered.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kutengule, about K50 billion is spent to pay pensioners per year, \u201cbut this varies every year depending on the number of people retiring from government\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National Audit Office carried out a similar exercise in 2015 in order to flush out ghost civil servants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development is conducting a head count of all pensioners to verify and clean up data on pensioners. Spokesperson in the Ministry, Alfred Kutengule, has confirmed the development describing it as a normal exercise. \u201cThe aim of the exercise is to have clean data on pensioners so that payment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38696,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38695\/revisions\/38696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}