Pensioners’ Plight
By Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
Westridge, Rawalpindi

 

The Comptroller Military Accounts Officers (Pension Section) is reported to have issued a letter dated 1 st  September 2015 but dispatched on 9 th  Sept. asking retired army officers to submit a life certificate latest by 10 th  Sept. 2015 failing which their pension would be withheld.  No less than a retired Lieutenant General visited the office of the CMAO (P) to apprise them of the possibility of their letter reaching the officers after the due date. He asked them to extend the last date for the submission of the certificate.  But to no avail.

When the general narrated to me his woeful tale of being unsuccessful in convincing the CMA staff, I cautioned him to be careful as  anything could be expected of the CMA. They are on record to have asked an officer, who had submitted a similar life certificate during the British days, to submit the certificates for the previous three years also to prove that he was alive during those years as well!!

CMA, great people to deal with.