Merge Your SSNIT With Ghana Card; SSNIT Cautions Contributors

Ghana’s Digitalization Agenda, which calls for the majority of financial transactions to be conducted electronically, has progressed to the point that most identification cards must be synced with the Ghana Card.

As a result, the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), as well as telecommunications companies and other service providers, are reminding their valued contributors to merge their SSNIT numbers with their Ghana Cards in order to avoid not receiving their benefits after July 1, 2022, as directed by the Ghanaian government and the Bank of Ghana.

Mrs. Nancy Abbey, Director in charge of Member and Client Service at the Techiman SSNIT Office disclosed this in an interview sighted by Opemsuo.com during a ceremony to inaugurate the Tuobodom Branch into the Sisterhood of National Pensioners’ Association of SSNIT in the Techiman North District of Bono East region.

Mrs. Abbey also advised clients who have clocked 72 years of age or above to visit the SSNIT Office every year to notify them that they are still alive in order not to lose their entitlements.

“As SSNIT pensioner, first and foremost you should know that when you are 72 years and above, you have to visit the SSNIT office yearly because, at the age of 72 it is assumed that you’ve exhausted your SSNIT benefit so you have to visit the SSNIT office to prove that you are still alive. If you don’t visit the SSNIT office every year then that means your pay will halt”.

Mr. Emmanuel Derry Minie, Chairman of the newly inaugurated Tuobodom Chapter of Ghana National Association of SSNIT Pensioners advised workers especially the youth to make good savings with their earnings in order not to become miserable and lonely in their old age because that kill them faster after pension.

“I’m advising the youth that whiles we are in our prime stages, let us save part of every profit we make so that when we grow old, we will be able to cater for ourselves and not become beggars and burdens to the society. Let’s not consume anything that comes our way but save some for tomorrow”.

Source: Opemsuo.com/ Gloria Opoku