Teachers loans in 2 month arrears as TSC fail to remit deductions

Teachers employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) have expressed their disappointments after learning that their loan deductions were never remitted to commercial banks and saccos.

Yesterday the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) revealed that a significant number of teachers had reported getting warnings from banks that their loans were in arrears.

Knut said TSC has not remitted payments to banks and saccos for two months despite making deductions on teachers payslips.

“Dear customer your KCB CHECK OFF loan is still in arrears of Kes. XX loan reference number XXX. Kindly pay by depositing Kes. YY into the account YYY”, reads a text message sent to a teacher by KCB bank.

The banks and saccos have threatened to list the teachers on Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) should they fail to pay the loan arrears within thirty days.

This is not the first time TSC is accused of making deductions on teachers payslips but failing to remit the same to relevant institutions.

Early this year a number of hospitals turned teachers away and refused to attend to them together with their dependants.

The hospitals said the teachers NHIF accounts lacked funds to cover for their treatments saying TSC had not remitted the NHIF deductions.

Failure by TSC to remit the statutory deductions to relevant institutions puts teachers in jeopardy financially.

Knut has warned that they will not take these delays by TSC that is affecting their members.

Knut secretary general, Collins Oyuu, said the latest delay by TSC to remit the deductions is the longest to ever witnessed raising eyebrows on financial soundness of the Commission.

He said they will initiate a process of industrial action should TSC delay further in making the payments.