PPP welcomes completion of NIS  data entry verification project

GRAPPLING with tens of thousands of contributions which they were unable to match to contributors at the National Insurance Scheme, the ruling People’s Progressive Party yesterday congratulated the announcement by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon that the NIS Data Entry Verification Project would be completed by year-end.

According to the Party yesterday at their weekly press conference at Freedom House, the verification project was conceived because for years the NIS was unable to make a dent in the unallocated contributions, giving rise to a special project which “we all look forward to its completion.”
“At the end of this exercise thousands of contributors would have the benefit of their contributions credited to their names and the consequential benefits that will accrue to them,” the PPP said yesterday.

BENEFITS
The Party offered their compliments to the NIS and hope that the benefits will be swiftly enjoyed by the contributors.
Earlier in the month, the data entry verification project for the NIS had once again attracted the attention of Cabinet.
According to Dr. Luncheon, the more formidable aspect of the project, however, was the verification, and Cabinet noted with some concern the situation at the end of October with just under two million records that still needed to be verified.
He said that given the deadline for the total completion of the exercise, the NIS still has a few more weeks before December 31, 2014.
“We have the rest of November and the whole of December to have those less than two million verifications completed,” Dr. Luncheon had explained.

UNIDENTIFIABLE CONTRIBUTORS

The Cabinet Secretary pointed out that a specific category was drawn to Cabinet’s attention, which deals with contributors who for various reasons are unidentifiable. He explained that conventionally an employer enters a person’s name and NIS number and additional information when the contribution is submitted for a particular period.
What the scheme has been dealing with at the time, Dr. Luncheon explained, was accounts for large numbers, thousand of contributors, whose information identity was lacking and so the scheme probably had millions for thousands of contributors who are unidentifiable.
The data entry verification project was authorised on June 1 by Cabinet which would see the scheme addressing comprehensively and exhaustively the outstanding contribution records that have not been entered into the NIS computer system.

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