SSNIT TO PROSECUTE DEFAULTERS

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is to prosecute employers who fail to register their employees with the Trust's pension scheme. The Inspectorate Unit of SSNIT is accordingly undertaking a field exercise to identify employers who have contravened the Social Security Pension Scheme law. Mr Joseph Adomako-Boadu, Breman Asikuma District Manager of SSNIT gave the hint when he addressed members of the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Assembly at Breman Asikuma last Thursday.

He said the SSNIT district office has launched campaigns in the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa and Ajumako-Enyam-Essiam districts to educate employers on the need to register their employees and to make them aware of the penalties for defaulters. Mr Adomako-Boadu said the objective for converting the social security gratuity into a pension scheme in 1991, is to save workers from becoming from active service .He appealed to contributors to the scheme to update records on their children and spouses to avoid confusion over their benefits in case of death. The chairman of the assembly's Technical and Infrastructural Sub-Committee, Mr Napoleon Appiah-Dadson, urged SSNIT to intensify its educational programme to make both the public and contributors aware of the operations of the scheme and benefits to be derived from it.