SAVINGS. PNP Retirement and Benefits Administration Service (PRBS) director Brig. Gen. Niño David L. Rabaya says the “Pensioner Ko Sagot Ko (PKSK)” program has helped address the problematic pension system of the Philippine National Police, resulting in savings of more than PHP300 million a month. Rabaya led the PRBS "Serbis Bilis” caravan currently ongoing at the Robinsons Place in Pavia, Iloilo. (PNA photo by PGLena)
ILOILO CITY – The “Pensioner Ko Sagot Ko (PKSK)” project of the PNP Retirement and Benefits Administration Service (PRBS) has helped address the problematic pension system of the Philippine National Police (PNP), resulting in savings of more than PHP300 million a month.
“That system requires for the designation of an active personnel buddy paired with a pensioner and whereby every quarter they are going to visit our pensioners to check on their welfare and actual condition,” said PRBS director Brig. Gen. Niño David L. Rabaya, the guest of honor and speaker during Monday’s flag-raising ceremony at the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) headquarters here.
He said that when he joined the PRBS in 2021, the office was faced with challenges, including, among others the lack of proper accounting, fake claimants using fake documents, erroneous and unreliable databases and personnel in cahoots with fixers.
But with the initiative, more than 5,000 pensioners were disqualified for being deceased, having changed citizenship and convicted with finality for criminal offenses.
Nationwide, the PNP has more or less 72,000 pensioners.
Rabaya said he expects the project to continue because the current active PNP personnel will also be the ones to benefit when they retire from the service.
The PRBS chief led the ongoing “PRBS Serbis Bilis” caravan at Robinsons Place in the municipality of Pavia in Iloilo.
“It is our way of bringing our services closer to our clients as a show and our commitment of doing the extra mile to ensure that the welfare of our pensioners is being attended to,” he announced in his message.
The event will entertain retiring personnel and pensioners filing for their retirement, issuance of identification cards, and any other actual inquiries.
The caravan is connected virtually to the PNP central office where there is a staff waiting to readily answer their concerns.
In his message, he also called on retiring personnel of the PNP to reconcile their documents as early as possible if there are discrepancies.
Currently, Western Visayas has more or less 7,000 PNP pensioners, the third most number of pensioners among the regional police offices in the country. (PNA)
