NIS is a delivery system that is designed to frustrate its beneficiaries

Apr 25, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
If ever you are an NIS old age pensioner and want to experience episodic, institutional induced abdominal pains, explosive and persistent diarrhea, exacerbated high blood pressure, elevated HBA1C and temporary loss of cognitive function, you need to make an enquiry of your benefits from NIS. Their responses are so late, vague, sluggish and defensive in character even though your enquiry is legitimate.
A pensioner is made to believe that his enquiry is a demonstration of him being confrontational and an affront to questioning their so call authority.
I have been a pensioner since 2014 and made several enquiries about my pension but believe you me, they were all treated as writings on fugitive dust. It bothers me to think that in spite of all the letters of dissatisfaction that are constantly published in the newspapers, the situation is not corrected.
I was home in 2014 and was asked to submit some information to GBTI about my income in Guyana. Incidentally, NIS remits my pension on my authorization. I informed the teller that I am a recipient of a NIS pension but had no document to verify the amount.
Yes! I have never received any communication from NIS to the effect and this is normal office practice. Organizations with a public character like NIS can operate successfully only in third world countries.
They cannot risk it in the developed world as there would be umpteen law suits against its board of directors and managers. I am very sorry for Roopnarine Sukhu who wrote a letter titled I am asking the NIS to look into what a nurse did to me in your April 22, 2017 letter column. I wish him an early resolution even though, I have my own reservation where it will all end.
I have served my country in the public service from 1970-2002 and learnt over those years, that it is okay to call a spade a shovel but contemptuous to cite a spade as a spade. Life is filled with its own dynamics but when the exploiters become the exploited, they will experience the wrath of a down trodden cohort; they will speak to the wind; will be voiceless and deserve no pity. May our Almighty Father help us all!
Canada-based Retiree

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