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More than 4,000 Postal Corporation of Kenya retirees want the state to pay their retirement benefits amounting to more than Sh500million that has been outstanding for more than 10 years.

This even as the former workers faulted the employer for deducting pension funds from current employees without remitting to the Pension Fund schemes since 2015.

The former postal employees argue that all the workers who exited the service since 1999 were given pension benefits using the wrong formula, a move that has denied them millions of shillings in compensation.

The retirees led by lead litigant Moses Odingo (pictured),said Retirement Benefits Authority (RBA) must revert, back to the old formula that was in place in calculating the right benefits the former workers are entitled to.

“There has been a massive delay in solving our issues since 2010. We fear we may lose our lives before enjoying the benefits of what we worked for. A wrong formula was used and our pursuit ended in court,” Odingo told reporters in Nairobi yesterday.

Odingo charged that the matter for the Postal Corporation retirees was taken to court vide Judicial review application and the ruling delivered by High Court Judge Dennis Odunga who ordered RBA to finalize the formula for compensating the ex-workers.