TSC Salary Overpayment To Teachers. In a 2021/22 audit report, the Teachers Service Commission provided an explanation for how it came to be paying deceased instructors, which prompted lawmakers to order a forensic examination of its payroll.
According to TSC CEO Nancy Macharia, the issue arises when the commission receives information about a teacher’s resignation from the teaching profession after salaries have been paid.
According to Macharia, the commission pays out the biggest salary in the nation on the twentieth of each month.
She stated that teachers often have their wages in their accounts by the 22nd of each month.
According to Macharia, among other situations over which the commission has no control, occasionally a teacher passes away on the 30th or is fired or resigns..
TSC Salary Overpayment To Teachers
“You see, we have already disbursed the payroll by the 30th. So what happens then? We have to deduct overpayment because this teacher worked half the month,” she said.
Macharia spoke over the weekend during a sensitisation forum with the media in Nairobi.
She said teachers at times die and the families and school heads deal with the burial first instead of rushing to inform the commission.
“That is the problem but at the end of the day, we have recovered this money. We continue to recover this money,” she said.
“Unless we say we will be paying teachers on the 30th, then we won’t have any overpayment. But we want to ensure our teachers are paid on time to keep them motivated.”
Due to the introduction of digitisation in the commission, Macharia said TSC can now see in real-time when a teacher enters and exits the service.
“We are hoping that going forward with the digital system we won’t have these gaps. Of course, you have to understand before the digitisation we were relying on a manual system which would take too long to get to us,” Macharia said.
Further, Macharia said the issue had already been resolved by the Auditor General, only that it had to go to parliament because MPs had already picked it.
She said the commission even presented evidence to the auditor General showing that the monies were recovered and continue to be recovered.
TSC Salary Overpayment To Teachers
MPs on Tuesday last week ordered a forensic audit of the commission systems after detecting flaws in the state agency’s payroll.
National Assembly Public Accounts Committee Demands
National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee demanded a proper relook at the systems used for payment by the teacher’s employer.
The directive followed revelations of flaws in the payment systems that led to questionable payments.
The irregularities included payments after death of an employee, erroneous salary and allowances overpayments, undue salary and cases of misdirected salaries.