Caxito - The Justice Pension Fund (CPJ) has launched, in the Province of Bengo, a publicity and mass campaign with a view to increasing the number of members.
Currently, the fund has 4,500 members out of a total of around 20,000 employees in the justice sector in the country since it was created ten years ago.
The chairman of the board of directors of the Justice Pension Fund, Ms Amor de Fátima Francisco Mateus da Silva, said that the association has adopted a door-to-door communication strategy and will travel across the country in search of new members.
“There are many employees outside the pension scheme, so it will not be able to achieve the objectives if it cannot enlist more members”, he highlighted.
As a way of attraction, she announced that the funeral subsidy for members was raised from 300,000 kwanzas to AKz one million.
"We are negotiating health insurance. Our quota (AKz 12,500) is small due to what the insurers demand, so only mass enlistment will allow an increase in the number of members for the insurers to accept", explained the CEO of the institution.
The opening of branches in the provinces is one of the objectives of the fund and to this end, it relies on partners from the justice sector to carry it out.
Ms Amor de Fátima highlighted that the fund is having difficulties, employees have been without training for five months and that there are enormous challenges for the new management to face.
Justice Pension Fund is a non-profit mutualist association, whose purpose is to promote solidarity among members and their families, as well as the granting of social security, health and social protection benefits, with a view to guaranteeing their quality of life.
Specifically, the actions of the Pension Fund include protection against illness, maternity, disability, old age, subsidies to family members upon the death of a member, salary supplements, granting of credits and social actions.
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