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ICU hails SSNIT’s digitization as game-changer for pensioners
The General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), Morgan Ayawine, has praised the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) for...
SSNIT pays GHȼ447m to over 250K pensioners for August 2024
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has disbursed a total of GHȼ447 hardware, comprising GHȼ447.07 million to 250,580 pensioners for August 2024.
The...
We saved GH¢519m from cleaning ‘ghost pensioners’ on payroll – SSNIT DG
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) says it saved GH¢519 million by “deactivating” names of “ghost pensioners” from its payroll.
Mr Kofi Osafo-Maafo,...
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and Kaduna State Government Conducts Comprehensive Training on...
The UNECA in collaboration with the Kaduna State Government, has successfully conducted a training session for 43 staff members from the Kaduna State Residents...
SSNIT donates GH¢1m for pensioners’ healthcare
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has continued its support for the National Pensioners Association (NPA) by presenting a cheque of GH¢1...
Pensioner bondholders reject attempt to be roped into DDEP
Members of the Pensioner Bondholders’ Forum have rejected another attempt by the government to rope them into the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP).
Government has...
We won’t be part of new DDEP – Pensioner Bondholders
Pensioner Bondholders have declared their intention not to be part of the government’s fresh Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) for ESLA and Daakye Bondholders....
Pensioner Bondholders suspend picketing at Finance Ministry
The Pensioner Bondholders Forum has suspended its planned picketing at the Finance Ministry to protest the non-payment of outstanding coupons.
This follows the resumption of...
Pensioners resume picketing at Finance Ministry over unpaid coupons
Members of the Pensioner Bondholders Forum have, for the fifth time, resumed picketing at the Finance Ministry over six new coupon arrears.
The arrears are...
Pensioner Bondholders Forum to resume picketing today over unpaid coupons
Members of the Pensioner Bondholders Forum will today resume picketing at the Finance Ministry following the government’s failure to pay four outstanding principals and...
Pensioner Bondholders to petition CHRAJ over interest on unpaid coupons
Members of the Pensioner Bondholders Forum say they will be dragging the Ministry of Finance to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice...
Stop the promise and fail – Pensioner Bondholders to govt
Members of the Pensioner Bondholders Forum are urging the government to fulfil its promise to pay them their matured coupons and principals.
According to the bondholders, failure to...
Pensioner Bondholders to resume picketing on Thursday
The Finance Ministry will once again see members of the Pensioner Bondholders Forum picket at its premises on Thursday, June 1.
In a statement announcing...
I now take diazepam for panic attacks – Pensioner bondholder cries out
A pensioner who invested in government bonds, Balbir Allan, says she has resorted to medication due to panic attacks from the fear of losing...
Borrow from Treasury bill market to pay us – Pensioner bondholders to govt
The convener of the Pensioner Bondholders Forum says government should borrow from the treasury bills market to pay pensioner bondholders their coupons.
Dr Adu Anane...
Pensioner Bondholders Forum resume picketing at Finance Ministry
The Pensioner Bondholders Forum will today, May 8 resume an indefinite protest at the Ministry of Finance to demand the payment of their matured...
We will resume picketing if… – Pensioner bondholders warn
Pensioners Bondholders exempted from the government’s Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) have given the government a two-week ultimatum to pay coupon rates on matured...
SONA 2023: Majority shouts ‘Pensioner’ as Mahama storms parliament
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Former President John Mahama on Wednesday appeared in Parliament for the 2023 State of the Nations Address (SONA).
The address, delivered by President Nana...
Franklin Cudjoe ‘s reaction after govt exempted pensioners from debt exchange Programme
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The founding President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has described the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme as too ‘chaotic’ and ‘brutal’.
He...
You can’t ask pensioners to pay for your mismanagement – Nunoo-Mensah to govt
A former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces, Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, has supported the exclusion of pensioner investments from the Domestic...
DDEP: Leave our pensioners alone – Bagbin tells Finance Minister
The Speaker of Parliament has asked the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, not to touch monies belonging to pensioners.
Alban Bagbin said the current economic crisis...
You deny poor pensioners their money and quote the Bible? – Bolga Central MP...
The Bolgatanga Central MP, Isaac Adongo, appears to have had enough of the Finance Minister’s incessant biblical quotations during every address to the nation.
Ken...
Pensioner Bondholders storm Parliament [Video]
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The Pensioner Bondholders Forum on Thursday besieged Parliament to demand their exclusion from the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme.
This follows their seven-day protest at...
DDEP: Ofori-Atta claims to have exempted pensioner bondholders but they are yet to get...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, says his outfit has written to the Pensioners Bondholders Forum about their exemption from the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP).
This...
Court orders Police to publish absconding pensioner’s photograph
An Accra Circuit Court has ordered the Police to publish the picture of a 66-year-old pensioner accused of defiling four minors at Lashibi in...
Pensioner Bondholders picket at Finance Ministry again
The Pensioner Bondholders Forum has continued its protest against the inclusion of their investments in the Domestic Debt Exchange programme.
Members of the forum have...
Minority sends SoS message to aggrieved Pensioner Bondholders
Minority Leader, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, has assured Pensioner Bondholders that Parliament will drag Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, to the House over the controversial Debt...
Pensioner bondholders to continue picketing on Monday
After what appears to be an unsatisfactory crunch meeting with the Finance Minister, the Pensioner Bondholders Forum plans to continue picketing the Ministry on...
Court chases pensioner for defiling four minors
An Accra Circuit Court has declared a 66-year-old pensioner wanted for allegedly defiling four children in the Tema West Municipality.
The suspect, Emmanuel John Kwesi...
DDEP: The picketing pensioners, their moods and messages
On Tuesday, February 7, pensioners who have individually invested in government bonds returned to the precincts of the Ministry of Finance in Accra to...
Pensioner Bondholders Forum to picket at Finance Ministry
A group, calling itself the Pensioner Bondholders Forum, is set to picket at the Ministry of Finance to register their displeasure over government’s decision...
Govt defaults payment of teachers Tier 2 for 9 months, pensioners in a big...
Four teacher unions have accused the government of defaulting in the payment of their Occupational Pension Scheme (Tier 2) contributions to the Ghana Education...
Debt exchange: Pensioner Bondholder Forum engages former Presidents
The Pensioner Bondholder Forum has begun the process of engagements with Former President John Agyekum Kufuor and Former President John Dramani Mahama to seek...
GH¢3 billion paid to SSNIT pensioners in 11 months
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has made pension payments totalling GH¢3.06billion to pensioners in the first 11 months of this year.
The...
SSNIT withholds over ¢312m in pensions due to non-renewal of pensioner certificates
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has withheld more than GH¢312 million belonging to 21,337 pensioners due to failure to renew their...
SSNIT saves over GH¢312 million by deactivating 21,337 ‘ghost pensioners’
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has been able to save GH¢312.27 million as a result of the deactivation of 21,337 "ghost...
Pensioner who cut wife’s throat avoids jail as judge says ‘you acted out of...
A pensioner who cut his wife's throat in a failed suicide pact has avoided jail for manslaughter after a judge said he "acted out...
Blind and deaf pensioner, 103, gets life-changing operation so he can hear again
A ‘remarkable’ pensioner has become the oldest person in the world to undergo a life-changing op so he can hear again at 103.
Registered blind,...
Four pensioners who met as toddlers are still friends 86 years later
Four pensioners who became friends as toddlers are still inseparable almost 90 years later.
Pamela Wright, Mary Betteridge, Freda Jackson and Elsie Marsay first met in 1935...
Pensioner unable to shut his eyes for 3 years after ‘botched’ cosmetic surgery
A pensioner claims botched surgery means he hasn't been able to close his eyes - for nearly three years.
Pete Broadhurst, 79, splashed out £11,000...