PNP says master list of retirees already ‘purged’

THE Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Tuesday it has already “purged” its retirees’ list of pseudo-pensioners.

Director-General Nicanor A. Bartolome, PNP chief, said that this was done to maintain the integrity of the police pension payroll. The current PNP pensioner master list is pegged at 60,621.

In a report to Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa Jr., Bartolome said the master list has been cleansed and purged of unwanted entries based on the template required by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).

The updated master list contains current pension accounts of PNP and former Philippine Constabulary pensioners and beneficiaries and surviving spouses of deceased personnel and minor surviving children.

Bartolome also reported that a memorandum of agreement has been forged with the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) for the full automation of the pension payroll system through the LBP’s automated teller machine.

Simultaneous processing is underway to enroll all pensioners in the ATM payroll through LBP regional branches nationwide, he said.

The PNP chief added that effective June 1, 2012, PNP and PC pensioners started receiving adjusted pensions equivalent to the salary rate of active-duty personnel.

The DBM has released P1.125-million to support the pension adjustment of PNP and PC pensioners based on the 2nd Tranche of the Salary Standardization Law III.

At the same time, DBM recommended procedural reforms to facilitate cleansing of the roster of pensioners as a requirement for further release
of funds for succeeding pension adjustments.

Among the recommended procedural reforms initiated by the PNP are: implementation of the ATM pension system, verification of data on the death and change status of pensioners with the National Statistics Office, and cleansing of the pension master list.