THE PROCEDURES AND WAYS OF PAYMENT OF PENSION AND GRATUITY TO RETIRED CIVIL SERVANTS IN ENUGU STATE
ABSTRACT: This project is divided into different stages for ease of reference and simplification for analysis which goes as follows:-
The introduction of pension and gratuity, the background of the study which states the provision of pension and gratuity to retired civil servants in Enugu State by government though taxation. But in the private sector, premium has to set aside in separate fund known as funding for the purpose.
Statement of the problem which states the different problems that through about pension and gratuity which are the inability for the retirees to lacks training and understanding on the qualification and entitlement of pension and gratuity, highly poor of regardless of pension and gratuity to government, inability to know the meaning and need of pension and gratuity.
Purpose of the study, which state the needs to enlighten the public on the processes involved which prevent some civil servant from enjoying their pension and gratuity before they die. It also let the retired civil servants to know when their suppose to receive their pension and gratuity, finally the processes and ways involved in their payments.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One – introduction
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 Review Of Related Literatures 11
2.1 Local Related Literature And Study 11
2.2 Statutory Age Of Retirement 12
2.3 Notices Of Retirement 12
2.4 Conditions For Granting Retirement Benefits 12
2.5 Qualifying Servant For Pension And Gratuity 13
2.6 Death Gratuity 14
2.7 Pension/Gratuity Where An Officer Killed In
Course Of The Study 16
2.8 Way Of Calculating Pension 18
2.9 Reference 21
CHAPTER THREE
3.1 Research Of Methodology 22
3.2 Sources Of Data 22
3.3 Population Of The Study 23
3.4 Sample Size Determination 24
3.5 Research Instrument Used 25
3.6 Method Of Questionnaire Administration
And Distribution 25
3.7 Method Of Data Analysis 26
3.8 Limitation Of The Study 26
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 Presentation, Analysis And Interpretation Of Data 27
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 Conclusion 39
5.2 Summary Of Findings 40
5.3 Discussion Of Result 41
5.4 Recommendations 42
Bibliography 45
Appendix 49
Questionnaires 50
CHAPTER ONE
The term pension is a sum of money paid regularly by government to people above a certain age and to widowed, (widow) or disable people by former employers or financial institutions. It is also an amount of money paid regularly by a government or company to somebody who is considered to be too old or.
While the term, gratuity, means the money that you give to somebody who has provided a service for you or money that is given to employers when they leave their job.
There for being a reward for past meritorious services pensions and gratuities claim a first charge on the consolidated found of any government. Pension and gratuity matter should be treated with dispatch so it becomes inhuman for any deliberate delay in the payment or processing of retiring benefits.
Some people that bother about the matter at all would admit that pension and gratuity are erroneously understood in Enugu state. And so it is assumed that very little can be done to stop the abuse of the scheme by both employers and the law makers. And government has accepted that pensions and gratuities should be regarded as one’s statutory right and should under no circumstances be reduced or with held except for grievous reasons well defined.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Government generally regarded as the employer of labor is well identified with the provision of pension and gratuity for retired civil servants in Enugu
state. In the private sector of the economy however, pension is still regarded as a suspect work in much the same way as during the medieval ages in Enugu. Pension and gratuity provision for retired civil servants is financed by government through taxation, but in the private sectors premium, has to be set aside in separate fund known as funding for the purpose.
Contribution towards this fund is born by the employer usually as a percent age of payroll. The employee may or may not be called upon to contribute to the cost. These contributions accumulated with interest and investment income to provide the benefits on retirem
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