This is the process of using your fingerprint to verify your identity to confirm that you are still alive. This is to make sure that other persons other than yourself do not receive your monthly income.
Grootfontein, Nkurenkuru, and Opuwo Satellite offices are currently not equipped with any enrollment stations.
Where can you get enrolled?
Windhoek
Ondangwa
Oshakati
Rundu
Katima Mulilo
Keetmanshoop
Gobabis
Otjiwarongo
Swakopmund
Outapi
Eenhana
Documents required for biometric enrollment
Child Annuitant – Under 18 years represented by the Biological Parent
Child
- Full birth certificate
Biological Parent (Any one of the following original documents)
- Identity Card
- Valid Passport
- Valid Driver’s license with birth certificate
Child Annuitant – over 18 years represented by the Biological Parent
Child
- Full birth certificate
- 3rd party form
Biological Parent (Any one of the following original documents)
- Identity Card
- Valid Passport
- Valid Driver’s license with birth certificate
Child Annuitant – over 18 years represented by a Guardian / Custodian
Child
- Full birth certificate
- 3rd party form
Guardian / Custodian
- Certificate of guardianship / Court Order PLUS any one of the following original documents
- Identity Card
- Valid Passport
- Valid Driver’s license with birth certificate
Child Annuitant above 18 years
- Full birth certificate
Pensioners and members on disability
Any one of the following original documents:
- Identity Card
- Valid Passport
- Valid Driver’s license with birth certificate
Spousal Annuitants
- Identity Card
- Valid Passport
- Valid Driver’s license with birth certificate
- Marriage Certificate
Annuitants or Pensioners represented by a Curator
Annuitant
- Full birth certificate
- Identity Card
- Valid Passport
- Valid Driver’s license with birth certificate
Curator
- Letter of Curatorship PLUS any one of the following original documents
- Identity Card
- Valid Passport
- Valid Driver’s license with birth certificate
If you are not registered for the biometrics identification process, your pension will be suspended until you are registered and continue to verify.
The biometrics identification system identifies a person by comparing a person’s thumbprint facial features to information stored on a database. GIPF is registering all people who receive a monthly income from the Fund (called annuitants) to receive their monthly income through the biometrics identification system.