Liberia to Retire 2,718 Civil Servants by Year-End

The Civil Service Agency (CSA) of Liberia has announced that 2,718 government employees will exit public service from seven spending entities on December 31, 2026. CSA Director General Dr. Josiah F. Joekai revealed these figures during a press briefing at the Ministry of Information in Monrovia on November 10, 2026. The announcement follows a country-wide pre-retirement counselling and data collection drive across all 15 counties, which identified a total of 2,835 eligible staff members.

According to AllAfrica, the Ministry of Education holds the largest share of the departing workforce, with 1,493 staff members making up 54.9 percent of the total. The Ministry of Health follows with 300 staff, or 11 percent, while the Ministry of Local Government includes 297 employees. The remaining 628 retirees are spread across four other government spending entities. Among the scheduled leavers, 2,125 are men and 593 are women, indicating a significant gender imbalance in the current retirement cohort.

The CSA also flagged 117 unresolved pension cases from earlier years, involving civil servants who left between 2020 and 2024 but have not yet started receiving benefits. These pending cases involve 92 men and 25 women from 13 different spending entities. The agency has lengthened the registration and documentation window until November 30, 2026, to capture staff missed during the initial national drive. Those registered in this extra window should get their first pension payments in February 2027, including January entitlements, subject to verification by the National Social Security and Welfare Corporation (NASSCORP).

Staff retiring on December 31 should start getting monthly pension benefits in January 2027, assuming they finish the required procedures. They will also get a one-time government retirement handshake payment. Joekai linked improvements in retirement processing to better coordination between the CSA and NASSCORP since President Joseph Nyuma Boakai took office in January 2024. A similar 2024 drive had found 1,403 potential retirees, highlighting the ongoing push to streamline pension administration and cut administrative bottlenecks for public servants.