15,000 dead pensioners axed from State payroll

The Treasury has stopped wiring cash to the bank accounts of the dead retirees. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The Treasury has removed 15,000 names from the pension payroll after a headcount revealed that they were dead people, costing taxpayers billions of shillings in payments to ghost pensioners

The Pensions Department said Friday that it has confirmed with the register of deaths that 5.7 percent of the 260,000 pensioners are dead.

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