Federal Government has disclosed
the reason for the delay and non-payment of some volunteers of its empowerment
programme, N-Power.
In a statement on the scheme’s
Twitter handle, Federal Government listed 10 reasons for the delay and
non-payment.
See reason given below…
“Physical verification for 2016
selected beneficiaries started in December and closed on March 12.
“Physical verification was done
against your age, qualification and place of residence.
“A qualified N-Power beneficiary
is one who passed physical verification in all three fronts.
“Some states erroneously deployed
everyone sent to them for physical verification. Without physical verification
on all the fronts, payments will not be made to such people.
“Physically verified applicants
were further subjected to Nigeria Interbank Settlement Scheme (NIBSS)
validation. This is the process where NIBSS compares the record a beneficiary
gave us on the portal to the record they have that is tied to your BVN.
“130,814 beneficiaries were
validated by NIBSS and those beneficiaries have received complete payment,
month on month for the singular reason that the details we have on their BVN
locator in NIBSS matched the details they provided us on the portal.
“33,000 whose records didn’t pass
the NIBSS validation should have been disqualified. But the president and the
vice president extended this grace that the team work with you (applicants),
month on month to validate you till you are able to receive payment, and that’s
what we mean when we say you are NIBSS verified.
“As at the end of May, we had
163,500 qualified beneficiaries. So it means that month on month we add on as
many people that come to update their account. Once you update your account and
we pass it to NIBSS and you are validated, you get paid for that month, then we
take you on for the next month.
”So what you notice is that once
you get your first payment, for example, if you get your first payment in the
month of March, you will continue to get April, May, June and we will then work
to pay you your backlogs.
“Possible scenarios why you may
not have been getting paid:
a. Unmatched BVN
b. Matching BVN, but your names
don’t match. At least two names provided on the portal must match with the BVN
records provided for you to be paid. The bank account given is not linked to
BVN.
c. Beneficiary didn’t link BVN to his bank account.
d. Beneficiaries gave no
NUBAN account number. What is a NUBAN account? NUBAN is the National Uniform
Banking Account Number which is a 10-digit account number, not the 14, 15, 16
we used to have before. So if you gave us a non-NUBAN account number you also
cannot be paid.
e. Beneficiaries provided accounts that were set up during your
NYSC, that was profiled not to take more than N19,000, so when we try to pay
N30,000, the banks return your money saying that the account cannot receive
that amount of money.
“We are currently working to sort
out all of your payment issues for 11,540 beneficiaries.”
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