Tajikistan makes facial recognition permanent for 877,000 pensioners
Agency for Social Insurance and Pensions of Tajikistan — Tajikistan's Agency for Social Insurance and Pensions has made facial recognition pensioners checks mandatory for all recipients, after a nationwide re-registration logged nearly 877,000 beneficiaries into a refreshed electronic database. The drive exposed fraud, including payments still drawn on behalf of deceased recipients, and forms part of a wider shift toward biometric identification pension systems. The agency is now building remote online verification so citizens abroad can complete facial scans without returning home.


