Design and Implementation of an Enhanced Pension Scheme Management System for Nigerian Pensioners

Abstract

The 2004 Pension scheme was introduced when there was complaint coming from the masses in respect to the old pension scheme which was introduced early 1970, and fully implemented in the year 1979. Some of the complaints from the old pension scheme were fraudulent activities of top officials of Pension Board. The increasing burden of Pension payment in the public sector which weighed heavenly on government making it difficult for government to meet up with payment. The 2004 pension scheme was introduced, it was contributory and funded. The introduction of the 2004 Pension Scheme was aimed at improving the standard of living of pensioners in order to avoid old-age poverty. Despite the fact that different bodies were created to carry out different activities, still monies of retirees have not been able to get to its rightful destination as at when due. Some of the problems encountered during the study of the existing system are incomplete data capturing, loss of vital information, double registration, inconveniences, traveling from one place to the other for verification without achieving ones aim. Our aim in this work is to design and implement an enhanced pension scheme management system that will be able to carry out registration and verification exercise online, thereby reducing stress and monies getting to its destination as at when due, provision of security in the database to prevent an insider and outsider from manipulating data in the system, The creation of a common database where the user, the Admin and Super Admin share common information to some extent. The methodology adopted is Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methodology (OOADM). The language used for coding this work is a combination of ASP.NET, which uses C Sharp at the back end and HTML, Java Script and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) at the front end.