While Congo-Brazzaville is fighting for the presidential election on March 21, the authorities have promised to settle all arrears due to the 45,000 pensioners registered with the National Social Security Fund (CNSS). They are currently collecting arrears for 2020 and are asking that sixteen quarters accumulated in previous years also be paid.
as reported from Brazzaville, Loïcia Martial
The CNSS counters from the central agency and working class branches have received many people in recent days. Retirees or their beneficiaries will receive arrears in the third and fourth quarters of 2020.
The president of the Congolese Contracting Pensioners’ Association, Gaspard Bakandiankouika, was proclaimed. “CNNS owes nothing more as a pension until 2020. We are now waiting for the first quarter of this year. A promise has been given to us ”.
In a press release, CNSS officials explained that the settlement of pension arrears for 2020 aims to improve the sustainability of the country’s debt and the recovery of its economy as part of the program concluded with the Monetary Fund. International (IMF).
Retirees are asking them to do more by paying sixteen-quarters of the arrears accumulated between 1997 and 2004 to alleviate their grief. “If all our arrears could be paid, it would be a great pleasure for us. It has been sixteen quarters that we have been waiting for payment for 23 years, ”recalled Mr Bakandiankouika.
The CNSS ensures that it has committed to gradually clearing
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