Pensions: ‘Retired workers to get allowance’

Ombudsman Javed Mahmood orders payment of seven per cent cost of living allowance to retired union council employees.


APP November 02, 2013

LAHORE: Ombudsman Javed Mahmood on Friday ordered payment of seven per cent cost of living allowance to retired union council employees. He said the cost of living allowance was a right of all employees. Rahim Bakhsh Khosa, a retired union council worker, had filed an application saying thousands of retired employees had been deprived of the allowance. Wazir Ahmad Qureshi, in charge of the pension cell was told to probe the issue. Qureshi said the Local Fund Audit as pension-sanctioning authority and was responsible for revision of pension prior to promulgation of Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2001.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 2nd, 2013.

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