All NIS contributions filed electronically

Jun 26, 2014 News

…verification to commence in July – Dr Luncheon
The days when staff at the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) would have to delve through piles of contributions records should come to an end by December. The verification process for the computerized records is expected to start early next month.
This was revealed yesterday by Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon at his weekly press conference.
Dr. Luncheon said that the December 31, 2014 deadline was issued by Cabinet to the National Insurance Scheme and specifically to the board and management, to have all outstanding contribution records updated, uploaded and placed on the NIS data management system.
The end of June report provided to Cabinet included the rather important developments of the almost complete data entry of outstanding contributions records.
The Cabinet Secretary also noted that there were literally millions of these contribution records that were on paper. By the end of June, the NIS management confirmed that all of the contributions records would have been electronically entered into their database.
He said, “That leaves the time beginning July to December to concentrate on the verification of the data and this is endlessly more challenging. It extends to inputs wide ranging not only staff, not only individual contributors, employers, but all of them would have to play an incisive role were the December 31 deadline to be met for 100 percent verification.”
“Cabinet was advised about timely resourcing of this effort. The dedication of the work force had been distracted into other not as important scheme functioning and responsibilities. For Cabinet purposes the steering committee was established weekly to monitor the implementation of that plan,” Dr. Luncheon noted.
He also said that it is with some optimism that Cabinet and particularly that sector are looking forward to the completion of this important task of computerization of all outstanding information.
When asked whether the ten years of missing contributions were recovered and placed into the computerized system, Dr. Luncheon said, “I would say that these contributions records have now been converted. I wouldn’t say every one of the 15 million outstanding was converted.
“The manual search for paper records to process benefits has definitely frustrated contributors and contributed to the thousands of appeals and some of them are still sitting in the system for as long as I have been there. This should have been done a long time ago but this time we want to ensure that it is done so properly and everything is done on the basis of data base system so that the days of tumbling up an office and looking for specific records after December 2014 would be history.”

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