{"id":9717,"date":"2022-01-17T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T15:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/gipf-now-accepts-electronic-funeral-claims"},"modified":"2022-01-17T17:38:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T17:38:36","slug":"gipf-now-accepts-electronic-funeral-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/gipf-now-accepts-electronic-funeral-claims","title":{"rendered":"GIPF now accepts Electronic Funeral Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) on Monday announced to its members that it would now accept completed funeral claims submitted electronically via email. \u201cFuneral claims submitted electronically are acknowledged and processed in the shortest time possible, thereby eliminating the need for the claimant to come physically to the GIPF office,\u201d read a statement written by Hilkka Mbako, Manager: Client Services. Hilkka Mbako, Manager: GIPF Client Services<\/p>\n<p>These claims can either be submitted by a Human Resource practitioner from a GIPF participating employer or the applicable claimant. Additionally, GIPF requests each claimant to kindly submit the funeral claim with original certified supporting documents such as the death certificate, identity document of the deceased member and claimant, marriage certificate (if married) and proof of banking particulars of the claimant.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cif the deceased was not married (single member), declarations of oath from two independent family members stating their relationship to the deceased and at the same time giving permission to a claimant to claim the funeral benefit within a period of 10 working days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The above-mentioned amendment to funeral claims is inspired by the Fund\u2019s Vision of being a leading and model Pension Fund globally and by living its service excellence value of delivering the Right, Fast, and Humane quality service to all its stakeholders in an innovative, professional, and respectful manner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) on Monday announced to its members that it would now accept completed funeral claims submitted electronically via email. \u201cFuneral claims submitted electronically are acknowledged and processed in the shortest time possible, thereby eliminating the need for the claimant to come physically to the GIPF office,\u201d read a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":9716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-9717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GIPF now accepts Electronic Funeral Claims - 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