{"id":131204,"date":"2021-06-16T11:13:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T15:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=131204"},"modified":"2021-06-17T11:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:15:38","slug":"social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security up to 5 months behind in some payments"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a><\/div>
\"\"<\/a><\/div>

The Social Security Board is struggling to fulfil its obligations due to the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

\n

Executive Director David Matthias told state media that the board was behind by months for some payments.<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cWe continue to discharge our payments for the month of May. You would observe that that would mean that we are practically a month behind with regards to our payments with regards to pensions and we are currently five months behind with regards to our payments for short term,\u201d Matthias said.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

\n

He said the 11 pm to 5 am curfew led to fewer working hours for some people, which translated into reduced contributions.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

\n

\u201cWith restricted working hours. That is, the working time ending at 11 pm in the evening, you would not see the number of hours a person would traditionally work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cIf I use 2019 as the reference period, we would\u2019ve seen in the early stages of COVID as much as a 40% decline in contributions as a result. With the lockdown that dropped down precisely to 60%,\u201d Matthias explained.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

\n

The Executive Director said that the board introduced innovative ways to do business with its customers to make transactions easier and limit face-to-face contact during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cWe are now on board with D-Cash, as a D-Cash merchant. That means we are full partners with the Caribbean Union Bank and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank to pilot and to test the D-Cash module,\u201d he announced.<\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Social Security Board is struggling to fulfil its obligations due to the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Executive Director David Matthias told state media that the board was behind by months for some payments. \u201cWe continue to discharge our payments for the month of May. You would observe that that would mean that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nSocial Security up to 5 months behind in some payments - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Social Security up to 5 months behind in some payments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Social Security Board is struggling to fulfil its obligations due to the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Executive Director David Matthias told state media that the board was behind by months for some payments. \u201cWe continue to discharge our payments for the month of May. You would observe that that would mean that […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-16T15:13:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-06-17T15:15:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210615-231928_Facebook.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1693\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"938\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"Social Security up to 5 months behind in some payments\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-16T15:13:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-17T15:15:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/\"},\"wordCount\":248,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1693\/h:938\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210615-231928_Facebook.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/\",\"name\":\"Social Security up to 5 months behind in some payments - Antigua News Room\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1693\/h:938\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210615-231928_Facebook.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-16T15:13:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-17T15:15:38+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1693\/h:938\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210615-231928_Facebook.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1693\/h:938\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210615-231928_Facebook.jpg\",\"width\":1693,\"height\":938},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Social Security up to 5 months behind in some payments\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/\",\"name\":\"Antigua News Room\",\"description\":\"News As It Happens\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Antigua Newsroom\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1080\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1584.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1080\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1584.jpeg\",\"width\":1260,\"height\":1260,\"caption\":\"Antigua Newsroom\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/AntiguaNewsRoom\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/antiguanewsroom\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\",\"name\":\"Editor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=96\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=96\",\"caption\":\"Editor\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/author\/editor\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Social Security up to 5 months behind in some payments - Antigua News Room","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Social Security up to 5 months behind in some payments","og_description":"The Social Security Board is struggling to fulfil its obligations due to the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Executive Director David Matthias told state media that the board was behind by months for some payments. \u201cWe continue to discharge our payments for the month of May. You would observe that that would mean that […]","og_url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/","og_site_name":"Antigua News Room","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom","article_published_time":"2021-06-16T15:13:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-06-17T15:15:38+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1693,"height":938,"url":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210615-231928_Facebook.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Editor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AntiguaNewsRoom","twitter_site":"@AntiguaNewsRoom","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Editor","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/"},"author":{"name":"Editor","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5"},"headline":"Social Security up to 5 months behind in some payments","datePublished":"2021-06-16T15:13:14+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-17T15:15:38+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/"},"wordCount":248,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1693\/h:938\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210615-231928_Facebook.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/","url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/","name":"Social Security up to 5 months behind in some payments - Antigua News Room","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1693\/h:938\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210615-231928_Facebook.jpg","datePublished":"2021-06-16T15:13:14+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-17T15:15:38+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1693\/h:938\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210615-231928_Facebook.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1693\/h:938\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210615-231928_Facebook.jpg","width":1693,"height":938},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/social-security-up-to-5-months-behind-in-some-payments\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Social Security up to 5 months behind in some payments"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/","name":"Antigua News Room","description":"News As It Happens","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization","name":"Antigua Newsroom","url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1080\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1584.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1080\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1584.jpeg","width":1260,"height":1260,"caption":"Antigua Newsroom"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom","https:\/\/x.com\/AntiguaNewsRoom","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/antiguanewsroom\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5","name":"Editor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=96","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=96","caption":"Editor"},"url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/author\/editor\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/131205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}