By Sola Alabadan
The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has asked all Retirement Savings Account (RSA) holders to visit any branch of their Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) to participate in the ongoing Data Recapture Exercise (DRE).
The exercise is for both active contributors and retirees whose data have not been recaptured.
Consequently, all active contributors are advised to visit their PFAs and provide the following documents to complete the data recapture: Staff Identity Card or National Driver’s License; or Permanent Voter’s Card; or International Passport (mandatory for non-Nigerians). Enrollment Slip issued by NIMC, Birth Certificate or Sworn Affidavit of Age Declaration.
For retirees, who are either on programmed withdrawal or annuity, they are expected to present the following documents: National Driver’s License or Permanent Voter’s Card; or
International Passport (mandatory for non-Nigerians), as well as Enrollment Slip issued by NIMC and Letter of Retirement issued by the employer to the retiree.
All RSA holders, who have had a name change (either their surnames or first names or both after registration), are required to present the following documents to their PFAs: Marriage Certificate, newspaper publication for change of name, sworn affidavit, and confirmation letter for change of name from employer, if still in employment.
PenCom stated that all PFAs have been directed to issue Acknowledgement Slips to RSA holders who submit complete documents for their data recapture, while the RSA holders will be notified of the status of their data recapture, successful or not successful, within five working days of submission of documents.
In compliance with the directive of the Federal Government that all data generating organisations should harmonise their databases with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), the Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) are conducting the contributors data recapture exercise.
Two agents, which are: Payone Solution Systems Limited and Afritech Multi Concept Limited, have been engaged by PFAs to carry out the DRE consistent with PenCom’s approval.
The agents are authorised to establish data recapture centres. RSA holders are allowed, therefore, to have their data recaptured at such centres by the agents if they are unable to visit the offices of their PFAs.
