The word “batches” is not the heading of any article of Political Prisoners Foundation Law No. 4 of 2006, as amended. What the text provides is that the National Pension Authority (Hay’at al-Taqa‘ud al-Wataniyya) pays the sums under Article 17 once coverage is established. A “batch”, in everyday use, is an administrative group in which names or file numbers ready for payment are announced. This page explains the link between the right and payment, and how an administrative payment group relates to the coverage decision.
The amount and the brackets of the salary are in The political prisoner's salary. The one-time grant is in The compensatory grant.
A payment batch is not opened for a person with no coverage decision, or for a person entitled only to a one-time grant rather than a periodic salary. After the decision, the file moves to the payment path through the National Pension Authority. A gap in the legal inheritance deed, in account details or in an identity number may delay inclusion in a batch, without cancelling coverage itself.
Appearance of a name in a published batch does not cure a wrong decision, and absence from a batch does not, by itself, mean the salary has ceased. Delay in payment is taken up with the Foundation and the National Pension Authority on the basis of the decision and the documents, not on the basis of public notices alone. Notifications may alert a person to a missing document or to a batch, and the date of a notification should be kept if a step depends on it.
Pension batches in Baghdad and elsewhere are often mentioned. That is a place or time of announcement, not a different law for each governorate. Entitlement is one and the same under the law. If a batch is queried, the Foundation or the National Pension Authority is approached, not a “branch” of the law office.
| Question | Where it is examined |
|---|---|
| Has a coverage decision been issued? | The Political Prisoners Foundation and the Special Committee |
| Is the entitlement a periodic salary or a one-time grant? | Article 17 and the salary page |
| Are the payment details complete? | The Foundation and the National Pension Authority |
| Was a notification missed, or a document requested? | The notifications and the file |
Batches for paying a covered person’s salary are not to be confused with the Appeals Body’s batches, which are a route for reviewing grievances inside the Foundation and are explained in Appeals. Nor are they to be confused with one-time grants where the period described in Article 17 does not open a periodic salary. A person who combines this salary with another should check the combining period in Combining entitlements and in the salary page, because the end of the combining period may change the payment route without that being a “drop from the batch”.
It is an administrative name for a payment group, not a separate statutory article. Payment is made by the National Pension Authority under Article 17.
Not by itself. The decision and the payment details are reviewed. The right is tied to coverage, not to a published list.
No. It is about payment of the salary of a person covered by the Political Prisoners Foundation Law, through the National Pension Authority, not about other retirement paths.
Payment batches are announced administratively as groups paid by the National Pension Authority under Article 17. The right is tied to the coverage decision, and a published list is an arrangement for a payment group.
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