SVB extends FZOG
re-registration period
PHILIPSBURG--Social Insurance Bank (SVB) has extended its re-registration period for FZOG cardholders to Thursday, January 31.
The registration period was originally scheduled to end today, Friday. SVB Head Reginald Willemsberg said SVB was expecting about 500 persons to register themselves and their family members during the re-registration period. However, up to yesterday, Thursday, only 141 persons had registered. “This means that almost 360 persons still haven’t registered and if all of them come tomorrow (Friday) to register, we would not be able to process all of them, so we decided to extend the period.”
The re-registration is being done to remove discrepancies from FZOG’s database and to issue new cards before the current ones expire on February 1. The re-registration began at the SVB office on Walter Nisbeth Road on Monday, January 21.
Willemsberg had said earlier that SVB had realised that many persons in its system were in possession of FZOG cards, but were not entitled to them. The re-registration is being done to weed out these persons from the system and ensure that only persons entitled to the cards have them.
Cardholders who visit the SVB office to re-register will be issued new guarantee cards. To renew their cards, clients should take their old guarantee cards, their identification cards and those of their family members, the school declarations of their children ages 18-24 who are still attending school and their last pension slips.
