{
  "id": 8931115,
  "title": "Federal pensioners get new digital verification system",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/federal-pensioners-get-new-digital-verification-system",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-21T13:43:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Times",
    "slug": "daily-times",
    "url": "https://dailytimes.com.pk/1556180/federal-pensioners-get-new-digital-verification-system/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The federal government has introduced a new biometric verification system for pensioners. Pension payments will continue directly through bank accounts. Under the new system, commercial banks will no longer handle pensioners’ biometric verification. The Ministry of Finance has issued new standard operating procedures for digital pension verification and payments. Read more: Government announces…",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}