{"id":193160,"date":"2024-01-02T11:59:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=193160"},"modified":"2024-01-02T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:59:07","slug":"letter-social-security-need-to-offer-a-better-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-social-security-need-to-offer-a-better-service\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Social Security need to offer a better service"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Editor,

As we begin a new year I am hoping that some of the Gov’t establishments & statutory boards offer better services to its patrons for the new year.

Social Security is one such establishment that I have serious concerns with.

First, I am not clear as to why provisions are not made for us the pensioners, to be sheltered from the elements of the weather, while we wait on a clerk to approve that we are still alive. Instead we are left out in the hot sun or perhaps the rain until they are ready for us.

Considering our age and the fragility of our body processes, I am left to wonder why SS cannot extend the courtesy of placing a water fountain with hot & cold water to provide us the privilege to make a hot cup of tea or have something to drink, in the event that it is needed.. In addition, a toilet facility should also be in place to accommodate us in the event that any one has to obey nature when it calls. The staff need to bear in mind that the bodies of the elderly are not as resilient as those of the younger ones.

Now, the time taken to service the pensioner’s application, as well as the maternity & the sickness application is totally ludicrous.\u00a0 Taking severaI months to over a year to render an application is ridiculous. Someone at Social Security has to be joking.

The operations at SS needs overhauling. It baffles me as to why an application take so long to be honoured? Is it a case that the staff who works on these applications are incompetant or is it that Social Security is short staff? Whatever the issue is, it needs to be rectified immediately.

Some of us who are new pensioners applied for our pension over a year ago & to this date we have not received a dime yet, neither can anyone tell us when our pension will be ready.

It is grossly unfair!! If it were not for a few savings or the help from family members, then the dog on the road would be better off than us.\u00a0 Many of us do not have any other source of income. So how are we to survive without an income? We need to eat, drink & live a life like anyone of those persons employed at SS.

I am asking the authorities to look in to this matter. When we were employed, every week or month, monies were taken from our wages to submit to SS and now we are suppose to be beneficiaries some of us are catching hells.<\/p>

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Alex ( Pensioner )<\/div>\n
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