{"id":13261,"date":"2020-08-23T19:57:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T19:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=13261"},"modified":"2020-08-23T19:57:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T19:57:39","slug":"pension-industry-bullish-amid-coronavirus-bite-on-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/pension-industry-bullish-amid-coronavirus-bite-on-contributions","title":{"rendered":"Pension industry bullish amid Coronavirus bite on contributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author: Awal Mohammed<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> The Covid-19 pandemic continues to erode people\u2019s livelihoods five months after it was detected in Kenya, leaving many with reduced retirement income.<\/p>\n<p>Suspension of pension contributions was among the first cost-cutting measures taken by employers in a bid to trim their payroll expenses.\u00a0Over a million Kenyans have so far lost their jobs\u00a0owing to the restrictive measures put in place to curb the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>At a low penetration of 20 per cent in both the formal and informal sectors, the Kenyan pension industry is set to dip further with gains in membership rolled back.<\/p>\n<p>However, industry experts believe this might be a \u201csilver lining\u201d moment, saying the unprecedented pandemic has taught people the benefit of setting some savings aside for a rainy day.<\/p>\n<p>Association of Retirement Benefits Schemes Chairman Simon Nyakundi says increased awareness on the importance of savings will boost the national pension coverage.\u00a0\u201cThere is a silver lining for the pension industry in this country once the pandemic is over.<\/p>\n<p>More people will want to save up in case such an emergency occurs again to remain afloat,\u201d he told Weekend Business.\u00a0Liason Group Managing Director Tom Mulwa predicts an upsurge in the number of Kenyans motivated to contribute to a pension scheme or a\u00a0savings plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing we\u2019ve learnt from Covid-19 is that it\u2019s important to have savings. Pension is a means of savings many Kenyans \u2013 both in the formal and informal sectors \u2013 will be wanting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the moment, due to reduced disposable income, Kenyans are finding it hard to strike a balance between daily expenses and savings.\u00a0\u201cThe most important strategy at the moment is efficiency. Everyone needs to apply it by cutting wastage as much as possible,\u201d said Mr Mulwa.\u00a0Records at the Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA) show that the suspensions applied by firms vary, with some stretching up to nine months.<\/p>\n<p>This means that employees will have to do with the mandatory contribution of National Social Security Fund (NSSF), whose monthly contribution is considerably small unless topped up voluntarily.\u00a0NSSF contributions are capped at a minimum of Sh200 with people working for decades known to be shocked when they go to collect their pension contributions only to get paltry amounts.<\/p>\n<p>Pension assets under management in Kenya currently stand at Sh1.2 trillion. A recent analysis by fund administrator Zamara showed that retirement schemes\u2019 returns recovered in the second quarter of 2020 compared to a negative position seen in the first quarter of 2019. The recovery was attributed to good performance from equities and offshore investments. Mr Nyakundi said this will be reversed, considering that contributions have reduced to a trickle and the end of the pandemic is not in sight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestment portfolios of pension schemes will be depressed this year, but luckily pension is a long-term investment. Once the pandemic is over, people will increase their contribution to catch up with the period they had not contributed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Postal Corporation of Kenya\u2019s retirement benefit scheme was put under administration by the RBA after it failed to collect Sh1 billion dues. Mulwa said a lot of regulator intervention into schemes is expected.<\/p>\n<p>He gave examples of the big schemes at universities that might be unable to remit member deductions owing to the long closure of the institutions. Universities are scheduled to reopen for face-to-face sessions next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect many casualties and a lot of regulator intervention,\u201d said Mulwa.\u00a0He, however, said they advised against firms taking drastic measures such as suspending pension contributions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll employers are naturally seeking ways of suspending pension contributions and we\u2019ve persuaded them not to take those drastic measures because we believe that at the end of the day there will be life after Covid-19,\u201d said Mulwa.<\/p>\n<p>He said the pension industry should prepare for a rebound but it is projected that there would be a shock to the sector until a vaccine is found.\u00a0For civil servants, their pension script would have been worse if provisions in the Finance Bill, 2020 had sailed through parliament to impose a monthly tax on pensions for senior citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The Bill had proposed to delete the paragraph exempting monthly pension, granted to a person who is 65 years of age or more, from tax. However, legislators rejected the clause, saying this would discourage saving into pension schemes.<\/p>\n<p>But the government is expected to make inroads this year on lowering the recurrent expenditure on pension and gratuities it pays to civil servants yearly.\u00a0Earlier this month, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani announced the rolling out of a contributory pension scheme for civil servants to tame the ballooning pension payout by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Expenditure on pensions and gratuities is now estimated at Sh87 billion from Sh105 billion that the Treasury had initially budgeted, latest exchequer statistics covering 10 months to April show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aging workforce<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Retirees\u2019 payroll, however, still hit a record Sh71.8 billion between July 2019 and April 2020, a growth of 36 per cent compared to the same period a year ago, largely because of a rapidly aging workforce in the public service.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite a policy decision nine years ago to raise the retirement age in public service from 55 to 60 years to defer and slow down the pension liabilities.\u00a0Yatani expressed confidence that the Public Service Superannuation Scheme will help tame government expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis process has been driven mainly by the necessity to alleviate the financial burden imposed by relatively generous public employees\u2019 pension schemes, enhanced labour mobility and the desire to build more equitable and financially sustainable social security systems,\u201d the CS said during the launch earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme, which will come into force in January next year, will be mandatory for 333,460\u00a0 government workers aged below 45 years with those above that given an option to join or remain in the old scheme.<\/p>\n<p>But even before Treasury can enjoy taming the pension bill, Parliament ensured the celebration would not last long as they made a new attempt to raise their retirement package.<\/p>\n<p>In a Bill sponsored by minority leader John Mbadi, the lawmakers agreed to pay 150 parliamentarians who served between 1984 and 2001 a pension of Sh100,000 per month.\u00a0If the Bill is assented to by the president, taxpayers will have to shoulder Sh1.15 billion to cater for the arrears and Sh136.2 million every year for monthly pension.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Principal Secretary Julius Muia, in a memorandum to the House, argued that the proposal would stretch the government\u2019s pension contribution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis would lead to a huge increase in the public pension wage bill, thereby negating the efforts by the government to tame the rising public wage bill,\u201d he said.\u00a0The Salary and Remuneration Commission also opposed the move by the MPs, saying it was an unnecessary burden to taxpayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Awal Mohammed AfricaPress-Kenya: The Covid-19 pandemic continues to erode people\u2019s livelihoods five months after it was detected in Kenya, leaving many with reduced retirement income. 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