In keeping with the commitment made by President Irfaan Ali, the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) will be conducting a three-day outreach in New York, United States of America, from November 4th to 6th 2023.
A release from the Ministry of Finance said that the outreach forms part of government’s efforts to resolve pending cases within the NIS and provides an opportunity for the Guyanese diaspora to interact directly with the Scheme to have their issues addressed and questions answered.
The details for the outreaches are as follows:
Day 1 – Saturday 04 November 2023
Location: Brooklyn, New York St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church 331 Hawthorne St., NY 11225
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Day 2 – Sunday 05 November 2023
Location: Schenectady, New York Guyanese Community Centre (Hindu Temple) 1052 Pleasant St., NY 12303
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Day 3 – Monday 06 November 2023
Location: Queens, New York Liberty Palace and Banquet Hall 130-11 Liberty Ave., South Richmond Hill, NY 11419
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
The release noted that President Ali recently announced the establishment of a specialised secretariat and a projectized format within the NIS, to expedite the resolution process of pending claims.
“I wanted to address this issue. This is an issue that we want to fix and we want to make every effort in a specialised, projectized manner to get this fix before the end of the year,” the President said.
A priority of the Government when it assumed office in 2020 was to address the complaints received from contributors with pending claims at the time amounting to 14,000 as at November 2020. The release said that in support of this effort, Government at Cabinet level, undertook a series of nationwide outreach sessions that took the services of NIS to the citizens, with 12 sessions held in Regions 2,3,4,5,6 and 10. Over 1,300 persons across the country have benefitted from these sessions, many of whom are in receipt of Old Age Pension after waiting for a number of years. Additionally, all inherited 14,000 pending claims have been settled, the release said.
The three-day outreach to the US will be led by the General Manager of the NIS, Holly Greeves.
