THE FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC BAUCHI

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
COURSE : PUBLIC PERSONNEL RELATION
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ASSIGNMENT QUESTION
Choose any ministry, Department or Agency and discuss the following
1. Welfare programs
2. Fringe benefits
3. Salary and wages
4. Retirement benefits

GROUP 1 ASSIGNMENT ON:

MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND SPECIAL SERVICE.

GROUP MEMBERS
NAMES. REG NUMBERS
Ismail Abdulazeez. 19/131856
Nwosu Joy Chinenye. 19/134340
Lynda Uju Anochili. 19/135662
Bibian Ujuwan Francis. 19/134381
Okoye Tochukwu Kingsley. 19/133198
 DECEMBER 2021
INTRODUCTION
Brief history of the Ministry

The ministry of Rural Development and Special Service was formally called
BASIRDA meaning Bauchi State Integrated Rural Development Agency. The
ministry was created during the time of the then Governor of Bauchi State, His
Excellences Governor Mu'azu I’m the year 2003.

The sole responsibilities of the ministry is the provision of electricity, road

projects, rural ratification, provision of pipe borne water, and other community
activities to the rural people living in rural areas. This means that the ministry is
charged with the provision of social amenities to the rural people by the
government of Bauchi State.

WELFARE

Welfare refers to assistance programs sponsored by governments for needy

individuals and families, including schemes, such as food stamps, health care
assistance, and unemployment compensation. ... The goals of welfare can be
promoting work, education, or providing a better standard of living. More broadly,
welfare may also encompass efforts to provide a basic level of well-being through
free or subsidized social services such as healthcare, education, vocational
training and public housing. In a welfare state, the State assumes responsibility for
the health, education, and welfare of society, providing a range of social services
such as those described. social welfare is mainly provided by the government out
of the national tax revenues, and to a lesser extent by non-government
organizations(NGOs), and charities (social and religious). A right to social security
 and an adequate standard of living is asserted in Articles 22 and 25 of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

FORMS OF WELFARE

Welfare can take a variety of forms, such as monetary payments, subsidies

and vouchers, or housing assistance. Welfare systems differ from country to
country, but welfare is commonly provided to individuals who are unemployed,
those with illness or disability, the elderly, those with dependent children,
and veterans. Programs may have a variety of conditions for a person to receive
welfare:
 Social insurance, state-sponsored programs based partly on individual
contributions towards benefits such as healthcare, unemployment payments, and
old-age pensions.
 Means-tested benefits, financial assistance provided for those who are unable to
cover basic needs, such as food, clothing and housing, due to poverty or lack of
income because of unemployment, sickness, disability, or caring for children.
While assistance is often in the form of financial payments, those eligible for social
welfare can usually access health and educational services free of charge. The
amount of support is enough to cover basic needs and eligibility is often subject to
a comprehensive and complex assessment of an applicant's social and financial
situation. See also Income Support.
 Non-contributory benefits. Several countries have special schemes, administered
with no requirement for contributions and no means test, for people in certain
categories of need: for example, veterans of armed forces, people with disabilities
and very old people.
 Discretionary benefits. Some schemes are based on the decision of an official,
such as a social worker.
 Universal or categorical benefits, also known as demo grants. These are non-
contributory benefits given for whole sections of the population without a means
test, such as family allowances

WELFARE PROGRAMS IN THE MINISTRY

LTG ( Leave and transport Grant)

NATA (Night allowance) allowance giving to staff travelling outside the state.

Study leave with pay

Medical allowance

Maternity leave with pay.

This welfare packages and more are enjoyed buy the staff of the ministry as at
when due.

FRINGE BENEFITS

Fringe benefits are perks that employers give to their employees above and
beyond any financial compensation.

A wide range of fringe benefits and employee perks exist from one employer to
another.

The most common benefits include life, disability, and health insurance, tuition
reimbursement, and education assistance, as well as retirement benefits.
Other perks include fitness centers (or fitness center discounts), employee meals,
cafeteria plans, dependent care assistance, and retirement plan contributions.

Salary shouldn't be the only consideration when you are looking for a job since
fringe benefits can save you a lot of money in the long run.

Most employers in the private and public sectors offer a variety of benefits in
addition to their salaries. These on-the-job perks, typically referred to as fringe
benefits, are viewed as compensation by an employer but are generally not
included in an employee’s taxable income. Keep reading to learn more about these
perks as well as some of the more common fringe benefits employers offer.

One of the advantages of fringe benefits is that they are tax-exempt for the
employer, provided that the set conditions are met. On the contrary, the recipients
of fringe benefits are required to include the fair value of the benefits in their
annual taxable income.

Generally, fringe benefits are provided by the employer, even if the actual provider
is a third party. This is because the employer is the party that pays for the benefit
that is provided to the employee. Similarly, the employee is usually the recipient of
the benefit, even if its use is extended to other family members.

Types of Benefits

Fringe benefits can be categorized into two categories. Some benefits are required
by law and others are provided at the employer’s discretion.

 
1. Fringe benefits required by law

The mandatory fringe benefits are intended to provide employees with medical
care, mitigate them from economic hardships in the event they lose employment,
and provide them with retirement income to sustain them during retirement. The
following are some of the mandatory fringe benefits that employers are required to
provide:

Health insurance

This fringe benefit is contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
It requires businesses that employ more than 50 people to provide healthcare plans,
and employees are required to have health insurance coverage. The health care
plans cover visits to primary care physicians, specialist doctors, and emergency
care.

Unemployment insurance

The Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) requires employers to pay a federal

and state unemployment tax to the Department of Labor, which provides wages,
training, and career guidance to employees who become unemployed due to no
fault of their own. Such benefits are meant to provide brief monetary assistance to
unemployed citizens who meet the requirements of the act.

 
Medical leave

Businesses that employ over 50 employees are required by law to provide family
and medical leave to an employee who has worked for over one year in the
company. The medical leave is unpaid, protected, and can last up to 12 weeks.

Worker’s compensation

The worker’s compensation benefit is administered by the Department of Labor to

federal workers who are injured at their workstation or acquire an occupational
disease. Employees are provided with medical treatment, wage replacement
benefits, rehabilitation, and other benefits. The compensation requirements vary by
state, and injured employees should contact their state worker’s compensation
board.

2. Fringe benefits not required by law

The following benefits are provided at the employer’s discretion. On the side of the
employer, most of these benefits are taxable, but with certain exceptions. Examples
of these fringe benefits include:

 Disability insurance
 Paid holidays
  Education reduction
 Retirement planning services
 Life insurance
 Paid time off
 Commuter benefits
 Achievement awards
 Fitness training
 Employee discounts
 Meal plans

FRINGE BENEFITS THE STAFF ENJOY

Car loan

Land loan

House loan

Festive season packages ( cash & food items)

SALARY AND WAGES

Wages and salaries are the payment for work agreed between an employee and his
or her employer under the contract of employment in the private sector and for
contractual agents in the public service, or employment for civil servants.
It includes the basic salary (or index-linked salary in the civil service) but also
bonuses and allowances, compensation for overtime hours worked, employee
savings (mandatory or optional profit-sharing, additional matching contributions),
other indemnities and related compensations (residence allowance, family
allowance, etc.) and payments in kind.
The salary is a kind of "price". Reduced to a unit of volume of work, which can be
an hour (hourly wage) or a full-time equivalent (FTE wage), it enables jobs or
work stations of different duration and working time to be compared

SALARY SCHEME OF THE MINISTRY

In the ministry of Rural Development and Special Service, there is a card used in
processing the payment salaries of employees. This card is called PRC (PAY
RECORD CARD) and it is of two(2) colors BLUE & PINK which serves different
purposes:-

The Blue color PRC

This card is used to process the payment of Junior staff under GL 06 – downward.

The Pink color PRC

This card is used to process the payment of senior staff from GL 07 – Upward.

RETIREMENT BENEFITS
Retirement and pension benefits are given to a retired government official to make
sure that they have a constant income and a secured life. The pension provisions
are in place to ensure that the retired government officials are well off and can be
financially independent and can lead their retired lives with no financial
challenges. The retirement benefits mainly consist of the employees’ leave
encashment (employees are allowed to accumulate leaves and exchange them
for cash on their retirement), retirement gratuity, and the amount that they were
contributing to their provident fund account throughout their service.

All these, when put together, will result in a considerable corpus. This amount is
going to be the backbone of the employee’s retired life. Using this amount wisely
will alleviate the need to depend on others for handling financial expenses. This
will give them a sense of financial confidence.

Apart from the retirement benefits mentioned above, the retired government
officials are also qualified to pension benefits. These benefits will allow them to
lead a peaceful retired life with no hassles whatsoever in terms of finance.

The different kinds of pension available for retired government official at the end
of their employment tenure are pension on retiring, superannuation, voluntary
retirement pension, compassionate allowances, family pension, compensation
pension, and extraordinary pension.

Superannuation pension plans are in place for those retired government officers
who go on to serve until they turn 60 years old. Voluntary pension is paid out to
those government officials who wish to retire just three months after they have
completed serving for a period of 20 years.
 Extraordinary pension schemes are a kind of pension plan which is paid out to
those retired government employees that are differently-abled or physically
challenged or to the families of those government employees who lost their lives in
the service of their employment with the government.

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