Tag: pension
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Nkoransa Omanhene urges informal sector workers to embrace tier-3 pension scheme
The Omanhene of the Nkoransa Traditional Area in the Bono East Region, Nana Akrapim Baffo Agyentaduahene IV is urging informal sector workers in the traditional area to join the tier-three pension scheme to secure their future. Nana Agyentaduahene IV gave the advice when personnel from the Bono Zonal Office of the National Pensions Regulatory Authority…
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Don’t exclude security agencies from unification of pension benefits – TUC to government
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called on government to reconsider its decision to exclude security service agencies in the country from the unification of pensions. This comes after President Akufo-Addo, in his State of the Nation Address to end his first term in office, announced government’s decision to exclude all security agencies from the…
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SSNIT moves to clear ‘ghost’ pensioners from payroll
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), has disclosed to Citi Business News that it will from next month stop paying claims to pensioners who have failed to undertake their biometric registration with the Trust. Per the move, pensioners 72 years and above will be considered as ‘ghosts’ hence will not be able to…
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SSNIT increases minimum pension benefit to GH¢303
Existing pensioners with the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) will from January 2018 enjoy ten percent increase in the benefits paid by the Trust. It follows the upward review of the minimum pension paid to contributors which takes effect this year. Per the move, pensioners on the payroll of SSNIT will now get…
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Pension for cocoa farmers kicks off in 2018
Cocoa farmers will from 2018 be signed onto a Cocoa Pension scheme. This is according to Chief Executive Officer of the National Pensions Regulatory Authority, Hayford Atta Krufi. The scheme which was originally proposed in the COCOBOD Act of 1984 never took off due reasons including the lack of an accurate database on cocoa farmers.…
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SSNIT probes $ 66m software purchase
The Board of Trustees of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SNNIT) has begun investigations into how the former management acquired a OBS software System for sixty-six million dollars. The system was installed to network all branches of SSNIT nationwide for purposes of enhancing efficiency. However the current administration at a media interaction on…