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    "id": 1523141,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mbeere North, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ruku GK",
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    "content": "Superannuation Scheme offer last expense and death gratuity to their beneficiaries in the occurrence of death. Regrettably, the family of the late Moses Muturi Ndwiga, P/F No. 2009000918, who succumbed to COVID-19 while serving as an Acting Director in the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development, Nyeri County, is yet to be paid the last expense and death gratuity. This case is among an estimated 800 beneficiaries under the then NHIF last expense scheme and 400 entitled to death gratuity under the Public Service Superannuation Scheme, particularly those who died between 2019 and 2021. It is against this background that I request the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Health to apprise the House on the following: 1. A report on the number of beneficiaries enrolled for last expense and death gratuity under the defunct NHIF and the Public Service Superannuation Scheme, respectively; payouts made so far, and the pending claims for the period between 2019 and 2021; 2. Reasons why the NHIF and the Public Service Superannuation Scheme have not compensated families of beneficiaries who died while covered by the two schemes; 3. Measures that have been taken to secure beneficiaries from loss of death gratuity following the winding up of the NHIF; and, 4. The plans and timelines for immediate remittance of last expense and death gratuity to the affected beneficiaries, particularly the family of the late Moses Muturi Ndwiga of P/F No. 2009000918. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we should not be requesting for statements again and again. The Ministry of Health has the responsibility to respond. We have several Principal Secretaries, a Cabinet Secretary and Directors and yet, they cannot respond to a request for statement within one or two weeks. This request for statement was done in September last year and, up to now, in March, no answer has been given. It is a shame! Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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