The National Pension Commission (PenCom) says Pension Fund Administrators (PFAs) registered 93,114 Retirement Savings Accounts (RSAs) in the first quarter (Q1) of 2022.

This was obtained from the organisation’s official website on Friday in Abuja.

A report from the organisation’s website said the PFAs registered 93,114 RSAs during the quarter under review, which brought the cumulative RSA registrations from inception to 9,621,979 as of March 31.

The report stated that the RSA Transfer System (RTS) was a total of 7,663 RSA holders initiated RSA transfers in the first RSA transfer quarter of 2022, which was concluded in the first week of April 2022.

“Out of the total RSA transfers initiated, 5,543 RSAs were transferred to their new PFAs and their associated pension assets, while 2,120 transfer requests failed.

“The failed submissions by PFAs could be attributed to their internal processes, as all the PFAs recorded some failed RSA transfer request submissions,” the report said.

Also, the report stated that PenCOM received an application from the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) to transfer NSITF contributions on behalf of 218 NSITF contributors during the quarter under review.

“Approval was granted to transfer N11.53 million to the RSAs of 213 contributors; on a similar note, the commission approved monthly pensions in the sum of N40.47 million to 2,304 NSITF pensioners,” it said.

The report stated that the compliance by state governments to the status of implementation of the CPS and other schemes as of Q1 2022 was impressive.

“25 States of the Federation had enacted pension laws on the CPS, while eight states are at the bill stage, four states adopted the Contributory Defined Benefits Scheme (CDBS).”

PenCom received 11,200 applications from private sector organisations for the issuance of Pension Clearance Certificates (PCCs).

“Out of this number, PCCs were issued to 10,541 organisations, while 659 applications were in the approval process as of March 31.

“The records showed that the 10,541 organisations actions had remitted a total sum of N59,39 billion into the RSAs of their employees, totalling 45,170,” it added.

(NAN)