Zim Now Writer
National pensions authority, the National Social Security Authority, has announced a discount grocery and free medical care as well as loans for income generating projects in an improved service provision for pensioners.
NSSA deputy director Marketing and Public Relations Tendai Mutseyekwa said the authority will continue to improve the benefits of pensioners and their beneficiaries in order to ensure better social security that they deserve.
“As NSSA, we will continuously review our benefits pay-out levels and these will be complemented by non-monetary benefits such as discounted groceries at participating stores, access to pensioner loans for income generating projects at a very concessionary rate of 10 percent per annum and free primary healthcare at NSSA clinics that we shall be opening in our six regions.
“In addition to this, each region will be getting a mobile clinic to enable us to attend to pensioners in remote areas,” said Mutseyekwa.
The development comes as remittances by companies improved, resulting in the authority surpassing its set budget.
“Remittances from the registered companies in the year 2022 amounted to ZWL$78,2 billion against a budget of ZWL$71,6 billion translating to 110 percent performance.
“The average compliance rate per month for year 2022 stood at 52 percent but this does not imply that 48 percent completely defaulted in 2022 but rather, some employers complied in one month, failed to comply in another month and then settled their arrears in a different month.
“However, the average employees covered per month, relating to this employer compliance rate was 84 percent meaning that the employers who employ most of our registered members, generally comply with the schemes,” said Mutseyekwa.
He said the compulsory State pension fund which was established in 1989 was administering two schemes; Pension and Other Benefits Scheme and Accident Prevention and Workers’ Compensation Scheme. The schemes play a pivotal role in providing social security to both serving workers and the elderly or retired workers through pay-outs and non-monetary benefits.
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