Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Van­dana Mo­hit, says she worked in­for­mal­ly over the long-week­end with a team from the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NIBTT) to re­duce the back­log of queries pend­ing in­for­ma­tion for the pro­cess­ing of so­cial wel­fare grants, in­clud­ing the se­nior cit­i­zens’ pen­sion.

In state­ment on Tues­day af­ter­noon, she said, “A ded­i­cat­ed team re­mains ful­ly mo­bilised to bring clo­sure to the re­main­ing cas­es, as both en­ti­ties are work­ing dili­gent­ly to com­plete the ver­i­fi­ca­tion process in the short­est pos­si­ble time­frame, while main­tain­ing a strong com­mit­ment to ac­cu­ra­cy, fair­ness, and trans­paren­cy.”

The min­istry has been fac­ing a sig­nif­i­cant back­log as it per­tains to in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing so­cial wel­fare grants and se­nior cit­i­zens’ pen­sion.