Pensioners in Pakistan Put in a Test of Biometric Verification

Senior citizens in different parts of the world are facilitated by the governments to spend the remaining half of their lives with ease, but in Pakistan, they have been burdened by the government as the pensioners have been put in a test of undergoing biometric verification to get the pension.

The federal government has issued a notification that reads that it would be mandatory for all retirees in Pakistan to open a bank account in which their pensions would land.

For this purpose, the pensioners would have to go under biometric verification from the bank to maintain the pension account.

However, according to new rules, the federal government has provided an alternative for pensioners that they would have to provide a life certificate signed by an authorized person every six months.

This facility can only be availed if the biometric verification cannot be done due to bodily illness, infirmity of if fingerprints do not exist.

The new rules state that the pensioner would stop getting pensions if they fail to submit a life certificate or does not undergo biometric verification during March and October.

All such bank accounts would be blocked.

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Instead of facilitating the elderly, the government of Pakistan has created new trouble for pensioners as many of them are worried since their biometric verification could not be carried due to the disappearance of fingerprints.

Even the alternative of life certificate would be an arduous job for the senior citizens as they would have to repeat it every six months. Or else, their pensions will be halted.