PM:06:05:23/05/2022
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SULAIMANI — Saman Nadir, the director of Sulaimani
Emergency Center, informed NRT a retiree died suddenly at Bakhtyari Bank on
Monday (May 23) morning, where he had gone to collect his pension.
Nadir said the
pensioner, Ali Majid, was born in 1947 and his body has been transferred to
forensics.
The system of pension
distribution in Sulaimani has come under frequent criticism with retirees left
waiting for days to collect their wages. Two elderly pensioners died in March while
waiting outside the bank amid the crowd to collect their pensions, and a third
died the same month in Soran.
The Co-President of
the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Bafel Talabani, addressed the issue in
March and said the situation was not acceptable.
The head of the Sulaimani
Provincial Council promised to improve the distribution of pensions in March
and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) suspended the general-director of Kurdistan
Central Bank over the issue in January.
(NRT Digital Media)