{"id":74142,"date":"2019-02-07T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=74142"},"modified":"2019-02-07T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T08:33:00","slug":"ex-myps-differ-on-pension-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/02\/07\/ex-myps-differ-on-pension-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-MYPs differ on pension payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Audrey Kapalaula: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51012\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ex-myp-officers-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ex-myp-officers-1-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ex-myp-officers-1-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ex-myp-officers-1-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ex-myp-officers-1.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UNWAVERING\u2014Ex-MYP officers warming themselves in a vigil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Differences have emerged among former Malawi Young Pioneer operatives (Ex-MYPs) over the government\u2019s failure to honour the pledge of putting them on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/audit-exercise-delays-k1-6-billion-ex-myps-pension\/\">pension scheme.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some have threatened to take the government to court on the matter while the group\u2019s leadership trashes the idea.<\/p>\n<p>One of the concerned ex-MYPs, Austin Mwandalo, Wednesday said the group has run out of patience as the government is failing to commit itself despite setting aside K70 billion for the task.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIn 2017\/18 budget, they allocated K70.6 billion for our pension [scheme] but we don\u2019t know what happened to it. We will soon go to court because we have given them enough time to work on all necessary processes but nothing is happening,\u201d<\/em> he said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mwandalo, who worked as a pioneer from 1986 to 1994, added that some people are yet to receive terminal benefits that the government is paying to the audited group.<\/p>\n<p>But leader of the group, Franco Chilemba, dismissed the matter, saying the group is working on gratuity processes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThese are just people who want to bring confusion and disrupt what we have planned as a group. For us, we want to finish all the payment processes of our terminal benefits before we can start discussing the issue of pension with the government. We are still engaging authorities on the issue of terminal benefits,\u201d<\/em> he said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Secretary to the Treasury, Cliff Chiunda, asked for a questionnaire before responding to the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Audrey Kapalaula: Differences have emerged among former Malawi Young Pioneer operatives (Ex-MYPs) over the government\u2019s failure to honour the pledge of putting them on pension scheme. Some have threatened to take the government to court on the matter while the group\u2019s leadership trashes the idea. One of the concerned ex-MYPs, Austin Mwandalo, Wednesday said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74142","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=74142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74146,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74142\/revisions\/74146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}