Yemisi Izuora
The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has concluded plans to hold the 2019 Pre-Retirement workshops for staff of Ministries, Departments and Agencies(MDAs) who are due to retire between January and December 2020.
The workshop is designed to educate the prospective retirees on the modalities for accessing retirement benefits under the Contributory Pension Scheme(CPS) and will hold between 17 June 2019 and 25 June, 2019 at 15 centres across the six geo-political zones of the Federation and FCT.
The centers scheduled for the exercise include, Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Port-Harcourt, Ilorin, Gombe, Bauchi. Others are Owerri, Sokoto, Enugu, Lokoja, Ibadan, Lafia and Benin.
PenCom said intending participants are not required to come with any document while medically unfit employees are exempted from the exercise.