Dear Editor,
I would like to thank Ms Dianne Lewis Baxter for responding and addressing the issues raised in my letter of April 22, 2010 informing pensioners that should the first Monday of the month be a public holiday, pensioners can cash their cheques on the next working day, ie, Tuesday. However, with respect to the payment of wages and salaries, whenever the date for the payment of such monies falls on a public holiday, payments are rescheduled for the day preceding the holiday. Pensions are like salaries to pensioners and as such the payment procedures should be similar.
Responding to two articles in the Stabroek News and Guyana Chronicle recently, Ms Lewis Baxter stated that “an insured person can and will continue to receive sickness and medical care benefits from NIS after 60 years if he or she is so qualified” (‘NIS has to operate within the Laws of Guyana’ SN, May 14). She also stated that medical care benefits are only paid to a claimant if he/she has satisfied the conditions for sickness and/or Industrial Benefit. Then she cited an example which I fully understand. My question here is if during my working years as a contributor to NIS I was not sick to the extent where I had to submit a medical certificate to NIS so there is no established history of the condition I now suffer after attaining the age of 60 years, will I be entitled to medical care or re-imbursement for the cost of such care?
Yours faithfully,
D Gentle
Pensioner
