LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Sept. 1 (PNA) — The provincial government of Pangasinan has gone paperless with its automated teller machine (ATM)-supported payroll system.
This was after Governor Amado Espino Jr. led the inauguration of the ATM that will be used for the withdrawals of the provincial employees’ respective salaries.
“All their (employees) payrolls, allowances, and other monetary benefits will be credited to their Land Bank visa debit card,” said Liza Melendez, Land Bank of the Philippines-Lingayen Chapter manager.
“It is better since one can get his salary right in the capitol, remarked Corazon Patulan of the Provincial Accounting Office of their new payroll system.
She underscored the convenience and practicality of the ATM to her and other employees with regard to getting their salaries.
Espino said that the new system discourages the presence of “loan sharks” from whom employees avail of loans with high interests.
“We will install CCTV (close,circuit tv) camera,” he added, noting that the employees themselves should be the ones to withdraw their salaries from the ATM.
Espino said they “will institute proceedings against the employees” if they let other people such as the “loan sharks” hold and process their ATM cards.
According to Melendez, they offered the ATM-payroll system to the provincial government for free as the Capitol is their “valued client.”
Initially, 957 employees have received their ATM cards; and other employees’ accounts are yet being processed.
The ATM machine is located in front of the Finance Building within the Capitol complex.
Melendez also said that they are planning to put up another ATM unit at the Capitol Building soon.
She assured security of their ATMs as she noted that their bank conducts routine check ups of the machines to downplay card cloning, among other scam tactics.
Apart from the ATM, the bank manager said they will propose another “paperless system”- the Land Bank mobile loan saver program- to the Capitol employees.
The program will allow eligible employees to avail of salary loan through text and online (electronic mail) application. (PNA)