I REFER to the letter, "Let them switch" (NST, May 16), from A. B. Ali of Arau.

I agree with the writer that the government, in the midst of reviewing the pension payment for civil servants, should not forget government servants who joined the Employees Provident Fund or who have retired as EPF members.

They served like every other civil servant but, upon retirement, they retired with their EPF savings and nothing more -- no gratuity, no medical service or any revision and increase in benefits.

Their EPF savings upon retirement cannot compare with that in the private sector because the government salary scheme is comparatively lower.

We should either allow those still in service or have retired to switch to the pension scheme or extend the medical benefits to them upon retirement.