A team from the Accountant General’s Department (AGD) processes life certificates for pensioners in Westmoreland on a stop of the Mobile Life Certificate Drive.

The certificate, to be submitted once every three months, must be stamped and signed by a justice of the peace, notary public, minister of religion, medical practitioner, school principal, bank manager, or parish councillor. Director of Corporate Communications and Public Relations at the AGD, David King, told JIS News that the initiative was conceived to address the challenges some pensioners outside of the Corporate Area were having with submitting their certificates.

“So, in trying to address that particular challenge, we decided to do what we call the Mobile Life Certificate Drive where we go around the island, specifically to about 11 parishes, and are there in person to process those documents. A person could just come to us at a central location, get the documents printed, stamped, signed, and submitted all in one day,” King explained.

Pensioners only need a valid form of government issued identification to get assistance during mobile drives.

Pensioners who do not submit their life certificates over a period of time run the risk of being suspended and having their payments halted.