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 who are 72 years and above, will be considered as "ghosts" hence will not be able to access their claims.

All pensioners are expected to renew their pension certificates annually to warrant payment of their monthly benefits from SSNIT.

The Head of Corporate Affairs at SSNIT, Victoria Gifty Abaidoo tells Citi Business News the directive should help in reducing unwarranted payments due to "ghost" names.

“We want to purge our systems and also know that all those that all the people we are paying are still alive and we are paying them. So what we are saying is that we are giving everybody the opportunity till the end of January 2018,” she explained.

Mrs. Abaidoo added, “From the 1st of February, if you have not done your biometric registration and used that to renew your pensioners’ certificate, then the assumption is that you are no more and that we will have to delete your name from our pension payroll.”

The move comes days after the announcement of a ten percent rise in the minimum pension payment to beneficiaries.

According to SSNIT, the increase is to improve the welfare of contributors currently on pension.


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