Ogun pensioners seek health relief, pension adjustment

Oct. 5, 2024 - Punch Newspapers

The Ogun State Chairman of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Waidi Oloyede, has pleaded with Governor Dapo Abiodun to help float what he termed as health relief under the National Health Insurance scheme such that the retirees who subscribe to the scheme would enjoy a 50 per cent discount. Oloyede disclosed this on Saturday during the annual celebration of the Pensioners’ Day held at the state secretariat of the pensioners at Leme, Abeokuta.

“We also wish to inform you that most, if not all, the senior citizens battle one health challenge or the other. It is therefore pertinent to say that we, the aged, the senior citizens, mostly need health relief as it is provided by the National Health Insurance Scheme.

“We passionately plead that the pensioners be rightly captured on the National Health Insurance Scheme and a further rebate or discount of 50% benefit should accrue to would-be subscribers as such has been allowed the mainstream personnel, the active workforce”...