Maldives Pension Administration Office (MPAO) has stated over USD 484,000 have not been received as the statistics of the deaths were not attained.
Speaking regarding the challenges faced to MPAO in maintaining the statistics of the deaths in Maldives, Chief Technology Officer Ahmed Shafeez said no progress were made in the efforts to collect the information. He noted no solution was found despite several requests made at relevant authorities and offices.
However, Shafeez revealed National Centre for Information Technology (NCIT) is working to find solutions for the issue, adding no progress have been made so far. He added the proposal of NCIT to develop a system to solve the issue was rejected by the authorities. He noted due to lack of a system to collect information on deaths, pension funds have been disbursed to all individuals uniformly every month. He added the funds distributed in excess amounts to over USD 484,000.
The information of birth and deaths is maintained by Department of National Registration (DNR).