Lhasa steps up checks on pensions and unpaid wages

Lhasa, a city in China’s Tibet region, says it has increased oversight of pension services and unpaid wages on government and state-owned projects.

The work aims to protect people’s pension benefits and ensure construction workers are paid.

For pension services, officials have improved benefit checks and shortened routine processing times by one to two working days.

They have also reviewed questionable pension contributions and worked with other departments to correct records and reduce risks to pension funds.

For construction projects, officials inspect sites, clarify which companies are responsible for paying workers, and pursue older unpaid-wage cases.

Lhasa says visible wage-arrears cases on new government and state-owned projects fell 22% year on year.

The city’s discipline inspection authorities say they will keep up oversight and work to establish lasting safeguards.