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Ignatius Baffour Awauh <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government has announced the payment of a total of GH\u00a2 3.1 billion into custodian accounts of the various public sector registered pension schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minister of Employment and La"},"modified":"2019-08-15T18:56:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:56:06","slug":"govt-pays-gh%c2%a2-3-1-bn-into-pension-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/15\/govt-pays-gh%c2%a2-3-1-bn-into-pension-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov’t Pays GH\u00a2 3.1 bn Into Pension Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ignatius Baffour Awauh <\/strong><\/p>\n

Government has announced the payment of a total of GH\u00a2 3.1 billion into custodian accounts of the various public sector registered pension schemes.<\/p>\n

Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awauh who announced this at the Ministry of Information\u2019 Meet the Press Series, in Accra.<\/p>\n

According to him, the various schemes included the Ghana Education Service Occupational Pension Scheme, Health Sector Occupational Pension Scheme, Judicial Service Occupational Pension Scheme, and Hedge Master Trust Occupational Pension Scheme.<\/p>\n

He noted that the disbursement was made under the Temporary Pension Fund Account (TPFA).<\/p>\n

He noted that efforts were being expedited to bring all matters arising out of the TPFA transfers including data reconciliation of beneficiaries and the issue of past credit to a logical conclusion.<\/p>\n

The sector minister added that as a result of many more efforts deliberately put in place, there has been an increase in the membership and contributions to the personal pension scheme.<\/p>\n

In line with President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s directive on May Day this year, he said, serious attention has been given to these matters to facilitate the smooth and efficient payment of Tier 2 Pension benefits from 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs at the first quarter of 2019, the total membership of personal pension scheme was 158,577 with a total asset under management of GH\u00a2 88,646,234.58 ($17,729,246.92), \u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Mr. Awuah said as at December 31st 2018, the active worker population recorded on the Tier 1 was 1,533,942.<\/p>\n

He added that new members enrolled onto the SSNIT Scheme increased from 281,303 in 2017 to 611,397 as at May 2019, at an average growth rate of 46.8 percent.<\/p>\n

According to him, as part of efforts to sanitize the operations of SSNIT, Government embarked on an exercise from February 2019 to identify and eliminate \u201cghost\u201d pensioners from the SSNIT payroll, saving the Trust over GH\u00a2 43.8\u00a0 million as at the end of May 2019
Under the Tier 2, he revealed that there were 1,427,137 contributors as at the end of 2018.<\/p>\n

Mr. Awuah however complained that there was a lot informal sector workers within the Ghanaian population uncovered by pension, calling for efforts to be made to extend coverage.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, he bemoaned that even though the pension industry was beginning to experience some tremendous improvements, there were some key challenges impeding progress in the pension sector.
He mentioned under-declaration of basic salaries of employees by some employers in order to pay low contributions for employees.
\u201cThis ultimately affects their pensions because pensions are direct reflection of the salaries on which contributions were paid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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