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TTUTA is calling on the Ministry of Finance and UNIMED, to come clean on the state of affairs at the private medical-insurance provider. According to TTUTA, teachers have been awaiting payout for claims, some of them in excess of one year, and the Association further claims, the company is owing policyholders in excess of thirty million dollars.
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00:21Tutor is calling on the Ministry of Finance and Unimed to come clean on the
00:26state of affairs at the private medical insurance provider. According to Tutor
00:30teachers have been awaiting payout for claims some of them in excess of one
00:34year and the association further claims the company is owing policyholders in
00:38excess of 30 million dollars. We have been struggling for the last year or so
00:45with the Unimed plan in regards to the payment of claims when persons would
00:52have sent in usually it should take about four to six weeks at present it's
00:58taking 13 months so there have been incremental increase in the time frame
01:05to which our members would get back their claims and we are well informed
01:12because Tutor is part of the management committee that it's because the plan is
01:17in the red there's a deficit at this time and you're talking about tens of
01:21millions of dollars. Tutor says the personnel department along with the
01:27Ministry of Finance commissioned an audit into Unimed the findings of which
01:31now lie with the minister however Tutor says it has not been apprised of the
01:36findings. We did ask for a copy of the audit especially being part of the
01:42Unimed management committee we were told quite frankly and blatantly that
01:49audit does not concern us at this time it was done by the personnel department
01:55the CPO and the Minister of Finance and they will deal with the
02:00contents of the audit. We are not aware of the contents of the of that audit
02:06however we are strongly recommending that the contents be applied the
02:15recommendations be applied as soon as possible we have our members suffering
02:20they are playing with the lives of our members. TV6 News reached out to
02:25Unimed however we were unable to get a response. Tutor is also calling on the
02:31government to put its money where its mouth is if it truly believes that the
02:35children are the future. President Martin Lumpkin says with schools due to reopen
02:40in two weeks many schools are still in need of repairs. When it comes to the
02:46important aspects of education they cannot find the funding for it what
02:52about the Heritage and Stabilization Fund can you draw down from it in order
02:57to improve the education sector we have boldly said that education is so
03:03important that it requires that level of funding and we believe that the general
03:10public will have no difficulty if the government does such
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