{"id":1146971,"date":"2022-07-11T21:47:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/11\/allowances-enjoyed-by-top-politicians-and-some-government-appointees-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T21:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:47:34","slug":"allowances-enjoyed-by-top-politicians-and-some-government-appointees-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/11\/allowances-enjoyed-by-top-politicians-and-some-government-appointees-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Allowances Enjoyed By Top Politicians And Some Government Appointees In Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Amidst the ongoing teachers strike and the other labour agitations for cost of living allowance, a list of what many article 71 holders (mostly top political appointees) are entitled to has surface on the internet. Below is are they;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/74b59b9b9ccf4e4da1ffd9d523d05bed\"\/><\/p>\n<p>1. Free medical care<\/p>\n<p>2. Inconvenience allowance<\/p>\n<p>3. Free laptop<\/p>\n<p>4. Executive salon car<\/p>\n<p>5. End of service benefit<\/p>\n<p>6. Vacation allowance<\/p>\n<p>7. Official vehicle( free)<\/p>\n<p>8. Vehicle loan option<\/p>\n<p>9. Repayment of cost of vehicle loan<\/p>\n<p>10. Clothing allowance<\/p>\n<p>11. Household allowance<\/p>\n<p>12. Utility subsidy\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>13. Responsibility allowance<\/p>\n<p>14. Entertainment allowance<\/p>\n<p>15. DSTV\u00a0monthly subscription\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>16. Housing loan<\/p>\n<p>17. Home enhancement loan<\/p>\n<p>18. Foreign travel per diem<\/p>\n<p>19. Ex &#8211; gratia<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/de3e10ba447a44d4a2865d38fb37cb81\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Article 71 holders got a 70% salary increment last year while teachers and other public workers had 4% and 7%\u00a0to pay rise in 2021\/2022.<\/p>\n<p>Now many public workers are demanding for 20% Cost Of Living Allowance but the country is in economic crisis as government has announced an IMF bailout.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting is scheduled tomorrow, 12th July 2022, between Labour Commission and labour unions on the COLA. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2b654a01bcd944b8aa9a48d7d80c2914\"\/>Will government plead with the unions to sacrifice and bear the hardship amidst the economic crisis. If so will the labour unions agree? Will the striking teachers return to classroom if they are told the above?<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Currentworldnews (via  Opera<br \/>\n News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the ongoing teachers strike and the other labour agitations for cost of living allowance, a list of what many article 71 holders (mostly top political appointees) are entitled to has surface on the internet. Below is are they; 1. Free medical care 2. Inconvenience allowance 3. Free laptop 4. Executive salon car 5. End [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1146972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5680,6581,9776,85,1090,4330,121],"class_list":["post-1146971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-allowances","tag-appointees","tag-enjoyed","tag-ghana","tag-government","tag-politicians","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}