For 19 years, this company only paid NIS six times for me

Mar 21, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I am forced to ask you to publish this letter which I am sure will prickle some slothful and incompetent officials into energetic and productive motion, and have my decade old problem resolved by approaching the company mentioned below in an authoritative and non-compromising manner.
I am Hubert Joseph Cramer-Seon of Kaburi Amerindian Village, 72 Miles Bartica Potaro Road. I worked with a very well known company in its logging operations for over thirty (30) years as a heavy duty machine operator from 1963-2002. TPL deducted National Insurance Scheme (NIS) contributions and Pay As You Earn (PAYE) taxes from my salary on behalf of NIS and GRA but failed to remit same to NIS (cannot comment on GRA but believed the company did not).
Before attaining the age of sixty (60) years, I made several visits to NIS Georgetown Head Office re: my NIS contributions, only to be told that there were only six (6) contributions made. I brought this to the attention of all eight (8) logging operations managers of the company with whom I worked and was assured that my interests will be rectified by the accounting department but this was not done because my NIS contributions still remained at six (6) after months of checking.
On January 29th, 2008 I obtained an official letter from the Human Resources (HR) Consultant of the company which stated my work experience. This is a total of nineteen (19) working years, equivalent to 998 contributions, which undoubtedly qualify me for NIS old age benefits. A copy of this letter was delivered to NIS Georgetown ad after several checks, my predicament remains the same, and my NIS contribution is still six (6).
Mr. Editor I wrote the General Manager of NIS on September 28th 2016 and enclosed all relevant information including pay slips and the letter from Mr. Bostwick and informed the NIS that where I am living there is neither postal or telephone service, so I named a contact person with a telephone (number) and email address. To date 19th March, 2017 the NIS has not shown common courtesy by acknowledging receipt of my letter nor made communication with my contact person.
Despite this I visited the GM’s office on four occasions from October 2016 to February 2017, only to be told ‘no new development and the contributions still remained at six’. Mr. Editor it costs over forty thousand dollars per trip from Kaburi to Georgetown, that’s the reason I named a contact person. But the manner in which my claim is being handled forces me to believe that NIS officials are compromised.
Hoping the publication of this letter will attract the attention of Senior Authorities.
Hubert Joseph Cramer-Seon

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