MPs yet to receive claims as pensioners cite delays

PHOTO | SALATON NJAU | FILE The Treasury Building in Nairobi.  NATION MEDIA GROUP

By NATION REPORTER
Posted  Monday, August 12   2013 at  23:30

MPs have not yet received their two-months mileage claims, some of them said on Monday, as pensioners complained of delay in disbursement of their benefits.

However, the Treasury said it released July salaries for all civil servants about two weeks ago except for pensioners whose payments they it is still processing.

The Treasury urged all civil servants who had not received all their salaries to contact their banks because “the salaries were released for processing long ago”.

“We released salaries for July and it’s only pensioners who have to wait longer because we process their payments after we have dealt with all the civil servants,” said Treasury spokesman Maina Kigaga.

Mr Kigaga indicated that they had received complaints from customers of some of Kenya’s two biggest banks who are yet to release salaries to some of the civil servants.

“We expected the last person to have received their salaries by Friday last week but there are some two big banks that have cases of unsettled salary payouts,” said Mr Kigaga.

However, some of the civil servants have insisted that they are yet to receive their July salaries almost two weeks after the government said it had released money to pay them.

Meanwhile, the Kenya National Union of Teachers said the TSC had released teachers’ salaries for July.

“We can confirm to you that TSC has released the July salaries. Check your bank accounts from tomorrow,” the union said through its Twitter handle.