Mr Raphael Kwasi Tufour, Controller and Accountant General (CAG) on Tuesday called on all institutions to be abreast with policies and principles involved in the implementation of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS).

He said after migrating institutions to the SSSS, civil servants must also understand the policies that went with it.

Mr Tufour gave the advise in a speech read on his behalf by Mr Andrews Kingsley Kwadwo Kufe, Deputy CAG, in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region.

The two day forum was organized to educate, take stock of complains and provide responses to nagging issues arising from the implementation of the SSSS. It was attended by a cross section of the working class made up of civil and public servants and pensioners.

According to Mr Tufour, the forum was organized because of the numerous complaints the department received from employees concerning salaries as well as workers lack of knowledge on how to seek a redress.

He said the forum would take heads of Departments through processes involved in managing the mechanized payroll, the SSSS and explanations of some specific payroll issues.

He said the Controller and Accountant General Department (CAGD), through the support of organized labour, had migrated 53 organizations constituting 90 per cent of institutions onto the SSSS on the mechanized payroll that included the Ghana Education Service, Ghana Health Service and the Civil Service.

Mr Tufour said CAGD had set up payroll clinics in all decentralized departments in the 170 Municipal and District Assemblies with appointed Payroll desk officers to sustain the education process, receive and solve problems of employees and pensioners on daily basis.

He however urged Heads of Departments, who were responsible for initiating the process on the mechanized payroll before CAGD prepared them to endeavor to examine the payroll reports and provide feedback to them.

Mr Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister, commended government for migrating almost all institutions onto the SSSS.

He urged the Heads of Departments to make accurate inputs onto the mechanized payroll and help in closing up the leakages in the system to maximize revenue.**