{"id":775557,"date":"2020-01-02T20:12:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/02\/ssnit-targets-24000-new-pensioners-for-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-01-02T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:12:26","slug":"ssnit-targets-24000-new-pensioners-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/02\/ssnit-targets-24000-new-pensioners-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"SSNIT Targets 24,000 New Pensioners For 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Dr John Ofori-Tenkorang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is hoping to add an additional 24,000 pensioners onto the pension scheme in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Director-General of SSNIT, Dr John Ofori-Tenkorang, made the disclosure to the media on Thursday, January 2, 2020, at a press conference in Accra to announce the indexation rate for 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, as at the end of 2019, there were about 216,000 on the pension payroll.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, he told <strong><em>DGN Online<\/em><\/strong>, the figure is expected to increase to about 240,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Melvin Tarlue<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr John Ofori-Tenkorang The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is hoping to add an additional 24,000 pensioners onto the pension scheme in 2020. Director-General of SSNIT, Dr John Ofori-Tenkorang, made the disclosure to the media on Thursday, January 2, 2020, at a press conference in Accra to announce the indexation rate for 2020. 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