A MASSIVE BACKLOG of about 20 000 claims at the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is creating a major headache for officials.
In fact, so serious is the problem that members of the board of the NIS met in special session with management last Wednesday evening to examine the situation and to come up with a concrete approach that would see “at least the oldest claims being identified and processed as priority”.
One highly placed source said the situation had created such a strain that some board members had been threatening to resign if action was not taken to remedy the situation. The board recommended “extraordinary measures” to ease the situation at a special board meeting in August.
Prior to Wednesday’s meeting, the source told the DAILY NATION, it looked like there could have been as many as 35 000 outstanding claims … (RRM)
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