A woman whose husband died in November last year says she is dissatisfied with the service provided at the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) after she was pushed around when she applied for funeral and survivor’s benefits.
Germina Rampersaud, an East Coast Demerara resident, in a letter to this newspaper on March 15 said when she applied at the NIS office, Brickdam for her husband’s funeral expenses she had all of the documentation that was listed on the application form only to be told that she also had to have her birth certificate. She returned the next day with the birth certificate and after being told that her application was clear, she was then made to go