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"content": "country, as you are aware, pensioners go through a lot. It has been pointed out by some Members that pensioners are suffering from depression and mental health because of delays in payment of their pension. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have listened to many Questions from Members in this House raising the issues of delayed pension for their constituents. I have encountered many cases of old people who retired and have not been paid pension for many years, even in my own county. Some of them are not even able to pay for their drugs and some live in abject poverty. These people served this Government and various organisations diligently but after employment, they are not able to take care of themselves because their pension has not been paid. This Bill is very productive and it will ensure that within 90 days, pensioners are paid their pension in full. I fully support this Bill. I have noticed this: In Government, since the introduction of performance measurement, many of the Government Departments and Ministries have come up with mission and vision statements that look very attractive but do not correlate with what they do at work. If you visit the website of the Pensions Department in the National Treasury, their mission statement states very clearly that it is “to ensure timely, efficient and effective payment of pension”. But that is not what they do. The performance measurement processes within Government must be reviewed so that whatever they promise to do members of the public, which is in their service charter, must be implemented as promised."
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