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Woman fights SSNIT for paying her Ghc3,750 after 41yrs of service

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  • fkbf 9 years ago

    Unbelievable It is very sad

  • EFO KOKU 9 years ago

    The nurses in Ghana are simply not serious. They fight over dress code and not money. Use why they have different dress colors among themselves and their ranks. My mum was a victim. She worked over 35 yrs as a nurse and came ...
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  • COSBY 9 years ago

    The unions say nothing came out of the meeting and that ends the matter.Don't these unions know what to do? you are holding a club and you allow a crazy dog to bite you and your children.Where are we heading to? CALL FOR ACTI ...
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  • Kwame 9 years ago

    You are perfectly right. My wife is one. They are fighting over what to wear and not what to live on.

  • truth hurts 9 years ago

    Most nurses in Ghana are the not so smart students after high school they go to nursing training unlike the west where getting in nursing school one has to be very smart. I hope things are changing now, we need smart nurses

  • Too Late. 9 years ago

    SSNIT workers simply pay themselves very fat, fat salaries and gargantuan fringe benefits all to the detriment of poor SSNIT contributers who end up getting little or next to nothing as their benefits. Those who can not this ...
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  • Paa Willi 9 years ago

    So my own man, JA Kuffour asked to be paid billions of old cedis as monthly allowance, a car to be changed every 4 yrs, a house in Accra and another one in his hometown, 1 million dollars for his fund, and ofcourse the everyd ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

    The larger society that has been built on loyalty to tribe and or political party gave rise to laws that perpetuate the kind of inequalities and injustices all around us. There are currently those in society willing to die fo ...
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  • sulamana 9 years ago

    THIS IS PRECISELY THE REASON PEOPLE GO AND WORK OUTSIDE. AFTER 41 YRS OF SERVICE, ONE RETIRES WITH A DECENT LIVING INCOME. nOT SO IN gHANA. MY MOTHER RETIRED AFTER WORKING AS A NURSE FOR OVER 30 YRS. SHE WENT TO SSNIT, COLLEC ...
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  • Maame Grace 9 years ago

    Hahahaha well put my mum was a teacher and later a head of scholl dies whilst still at post. Her pension being paid to my kid sister which was a mere token was stopped when she turned 18. No wonder Ashantes prefer to do bubin ...
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  • rick 9 years ago

    Hmmm, My dad was a worked for a private institution. After 35 years of service, he got 2800 as an upfront payment.

  • Aadey London 9 years ago

    this is why I hate Kuffour, such gargantuan exgratia for himself and the succeeding NDC govt did not bother to discard/ override it. Ghana!!! When?

  • John 9 years ago

    The whole SSNIT scheme needs to be abolished,they don't invest well for workers to benefit on their savings.Workers shd be free to choose rival institutions when they're employed.Politicians over the years have seen SSNIT as ...
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  • Quansah 9 years ago

    SSNIT is sucking and draining our blood and its on them and their childrens head.

  • Freddy 9 years ago

    Mahama and ndc chop pension moneyooooo

  • KB 9 years ago

    This is really sad,getting just Gh3,750 after working for 41yrs for the GOVERNMENT...SSNIT God is really watching.

  • Concerned Citizen 9 years ago

    I feel sorry for those whose hope for their old age is in SSNIT. If they had used their money to build a house bit by bit, it would have been far better.

  • Joe Turkey 9 years ago

    I know this for sure because I know people on the board of SNNIT. They take $5000 per sitting as at December 2014. And all they do is to decide what project they should award to their cronies and what commissions they (the B ...
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  • United Ghana 9 years ago

    If this is true, it's absolutely scandalous. These people have no care for GH. It's just a gravy train to them

  • OLIVIA 9 years ago

    STUPID NDC GOVT DOLED OUR MONEY OUT TO RLG, WOYOME, GYEEDA SAKAWAH PLAYERS ETC ETC AND TELLS THEM TO REFUND INTEREST FREE WHILST THIS POOR WOMAN'S CONTRIBUTION TO SSNIT WAS USED FOR SUCH STUPID ACTIVITIES WHILST SHE SUFFERS P ...
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  • collins kofi. 9 years ago

    I will rather live in Europe and pay my taxes in a country whereby my kids will have free education to the university level and where by I will enjoy free medical system with proper electricity system than to pay my tax into ...
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  • kofi 9 years ago

    BRIGANDS, pay her before she dies

  • Concerned 9 years ago

    This woman should not fight alone. The unions should take the matter to court. It represents about 90cedis for each year of service. Even if only ndc members vote, this government should lose the next election. Only animals ...
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  • komfo 9 years ago

    What is happening in this country? Nothing seems to be working.

  • komfo 9 years ago

    You haven't heard anything yet. Ask the railways pensioners how much they got after working for 40 years.

  • Lawyer Nyamekye 9 years ago

    Government should work hard and put clarity to this issue. How can workers treat workers like that.

  • kwadwo opoku 9 years ago

    This is absolute nonsense! How much do the ssnit workers take home themselves on retirement? Why are you so mean? U better give her and all others what they have worked for and stop this shameful act.

  • Paa Willi 9 years ago

    Kuffour asked to be paid billions of old cedis as monthly allowance, a car to be changed every 4 yrs, a house in Accra and another one in his hometown, 1 million dollars for his fund, and ofcourse the everyday state largesse. ...
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  • K.K 9 years ago

    HOW MANY CARS DID JATO RAWLINGS TOOK AS PART OF HIS EXGRATIA ?

  • Ghanaba 9 years ago

    PAA WILLI, I DOUBT IF YOU HAVE ANY BRAINS AT ALL. YOU COULD ONLY SEE KUFFOUR AS THE ONLY BENEFICIARY OF THE "END OF SERVICE BENEFITS" INSERTED IN THE CONSTITUITION BY JJ RAWLINGS AND HIS PNDC CROOKS? WOULD YOU BOTHER TO FIND ...
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  • 123 9 years ago

    It is sad. The only people who have pension in Ghana are the Police Service and Audit Service staff. They bribed parliament to pass Audit service regulation and Police Act. They increased monthly pensions to 75% of basic sala ...
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  • Sam 9 years ago

    Look at how this woman has been treated after 42 years of sacrifice this is what she gets in return.Meanwhile MPS after serving 4yrs as paliamentarian wants the whole world to be given to them as exgratia.Why not MP and Minis ...
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  • Lawyer Nyamekye 9 years ago

    This is a SERIOUS matter. It is neither ndc nor npp matter. The Ghanaian government should urgently attend to the public pensions issue.Why should they talk about the youth benefitting more? That was a useless statement. She ...
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  • Kweku 9 years ago

    This is really disgraceful as a country. We are a pathetic lot coming from a christian country. It is just unthinkable. The fat cats and politicians wont raise a finger.

  • Cool_It 9 years ago

    I really wonder what kind of unions operate in this country. Where have they been all this while? What did they do when the new Pensions Act was promulgated?

    They are all over the place fighting govt over who manages Tier ...
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  • Kwesi 9 years ago

    My wife got GHS20,000 after 36 years of service retiring as Assistant Director of Education and I thought it was meager. Now I know why. Our governments over the years have misused the workers money and now the workers suffer ...
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  • NAS 9 years ago

    where is the minister of women nd gender,this are some of the issues that she is suppose to be dealing with.

  • Tawiah 9 years ago

    SUE SSNIT BECAUSE THEY ARE THIEVES. REAL CRIMINALS INDEED.

  • ZAAKUS 9 years ago

    MR. REPORTER AND CONTRIBUTORS AS WELL PLS CONTACT NATIONAL PENSION REGULATORY AUTHORITY(NPRA)IF YOU HAVE ANY GRIEVANCES IN RESPECT OF YOUR PENSIONS.THEY HOLD THE WHIP ON ALL PENSION ADMINISTRATORS IN GHANA INCLUDING SSNIT. PL ...
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  • Kojo Awuah 9 years ago

    I think there is a problem with the new law which should have been foreseen. So where is all the contributions she made to SSNIT before the law came into effect? The law should have made it such that those who will be better ...
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  • Sekwa 9 years ago

    Politicians make a lot of money for working for very few years. This has gone on for many years and SSNIT employees are the beneficiaries of the booty they make out of such instances. Why do you fight corruption in the public ...
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  • ZAAKUS 9 years ago

    ONE SIDED STORY MR. REPORTER. WE WANT TO HERE FROM SSNIT AND NPRA WHETHER HER BENEFIT WAS PROCESSED UNDER THE PNDCL247 OR ACT766. IF IS ACT 766, THEN THE LUMPSUM WHICH HAS TO BE PAID BY TIER2 IS THE BONE OF CONTENTION BETWEEN ...
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  • kofi 9 years ago

    De politicians are to be blamed, influencing every aspect of de society BRIGANDS.

  • papa kofitd 9 years ago

    Madam,take them to International Court of Justice so that those useless government and institutions in this country face proper scrutiny and accountability.

  • kofi 9 years ago

    what they do best is unnecessary deduction of dues from salaries

  • Kwame yeboah 9 years ago

    She should reject it.is an insult to her.

  • Nesissa 9 years ago

    No need to fight SSNIT. The blame must be on those who temptered with the OLD SSNIT PENSION LAW to bring this NEW LAW. They know why they must change the old law to their BENEFIT TO PROFIT from the many progress made by SSNIT ...
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  • London Boy 9 years ago

    cORRUPTION HAS EATING INTO THE FABRIC OF GHANAIAN SOCIETY. THIS IS A MEANS OF SIPHONING THE BALANCE INTO A FRAUDULENT ACCOUNT TO BE SHARED. VERY SAD STORY BUT THIS WOMAN MUST FIGHT ON!!!!!!!

  • RerALI MANHAMA 9 years ago

    Why should workers look on whilst SSNIT team up with NDC corrupt Government to cheat them.

  • EDUARDO DOMINGO 9 years ago

    SSNIT OR ROBBERS????????

  • PAA WILLI NDC PRESIDENTS JOY EX GRATI 9 years ago

    THE NDC GOV'T AND THEIR THREE PRESIDENTS, STARTING FROM JJ RAWLINGS WHO NOW LIVE IN A GOV'T A BAGALOW, PROF. ATTA MILLS AND HIS NDC APPOINTEES ALSO EX GRATIA, JOHN MAHAMA AND HIS GOV'T OF THE NDC AGAIN WILL ALSO ENJOY EX GRAT ...
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  • Aadey London 9 years ago

    Aaaw even the poor citizens pension money is not spared from NDC govt loot and share. Hwe se meni ataataa nisuo, where did peace loving Ghanaians go wrong?

  • The Red cock 9 years ago

    Midwives earn more than teachers so i guess this woman was paying more contributions to SSNIT,if a teacher after 35 years of service gets a lump sum of 10 000 cedis i dont see why she should get this.NPRA only takes effect fr ...
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  • Atsu 9 years ago

    Madam Buckman
    Your fight is for us
    We support your cause
    Our pensions need to be transparent in this ICT age
    We will fight all the way to ensure justice is done
    Never once regret your meritorious services to the poor peo ...
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  • Devin 9 years ago

    If one person can be paid $51 million dollars, what do u think those managing people's money would do? All politicians ve to account for the monies they ve

  • Kojovi 9 years ago

    They should give her the statement and stop fooling

  • Ankonam 9 years ago

    If the unions were any good, nothing of the sort would ever happen. they didn't have to sit on their backsides until such injustices occurred. Efficient and competent unionists would have stopped the injustices occurring at t ...
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  • JTK 9 years ago

    SNNIT has used workers contributions over the years to invest in useless ventures and is a goldmine for thieves.

  • Brain uk 9 years ago

    GHANA TUC IS USELESS

  • ghanaba 9 years ago

    If a senior mid-wife = 3700, then a teacher =?

  • QUEEN 9 years ago

    TOO MUCH CRAZINESS GOING ON IN GHANA.