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    "id": 1107271,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1107271/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 545,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "Within the Bill, we have already provided in Section 10 that subject to such guidelines, the Board may, from time to time, allow a person who may wish to receive enhanced benefits to make additional voluntary contributions to the scheme. So, we have already provided for additional contributions. What Members have already passed is that this is a mandatory contribution. There is no option. It is now mandatory that everyone must contribute. That is why we created those categories for indigents, on whose behalf the State will contribute, and for unemployed categories. We have already said it is mandatory for everyone. So, we have removed the voluntary contributions that were in the old law of 1988. So, by the amendment of Section 15, the Departmental Committee Chair was saying that the scheme is mandatory for everyone. There is no issue of voluntary contributions by anyone except for those who opt for voluntary contributions to top up their benefits. We have already provided for unemployed, self-employed, the indigents and the employed. So, there is no other category that was there before. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}