The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) and the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) have agreed to kick-start and fine-tune the modalities to provide health insurance cover for pensioners under the Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS).
The acting Executive Secretary, PTAD, Mr Sulayman Shelleng, said the collaboration with the NHIA will be leveraging the ongoing ‘I Am Alive’ confirmation exercise for all verified and pay-rolled pensioners to enrol pensioners.
According to PTAD, the healthcare insurance will commence as a pilot programme with DBS pensioners who are verified on the payroll of the directorate. The prospective beneficiaries must have also successfully confirmed their aliveness status. The beneficiaries of the pilot phase will have access to basic health services through selected hospitals closest to the pensioners’ community of abode.
The NHIA team collaborating with PTAD on the rollout of the health palliative is led by the acting Director, NHIA, Mr N.C. Makwe, ably supported by Dr. K. Eteng.
The NHIA, team among other things, presented the modalities and timelines to actualise the enrolment of PTAD pensioners drawn from across the four operational departments. Plans were further discussed around organising sensitisation in the pilot states of Kaduna and Oyo to make the onboarding process for pensioners easy.
They also assured the PTAD team that they will work with the HMO to ensure that primary health care providers in the local communities deliver services emphatically to the DBS pensioners.
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