SSNIT moves to speed up processing of benefits
The acting Corporate Affairs Manager of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Mrs Victoria Gifty Abaidoo, has stated that the company has rolled up an automation system that would speed up the processing of benefits of contributors.
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According to her, this system has been put in place to address the delays that contributors face whenever they come in for their benefits.
Mrs Abaidoo said this when the Trust presented a cheque for GH₵50,000 to Creating New Beginnings, an autism facility, as part of the company’s corporate social responsibility activity.
She said although it had not been officially launched, the system had so far addressed most of the challenges it was created to address.
Mrs Abaidoo also stated that stakeholders who had been involved since the initial stages had expressed the hope that the current changes would not pose any challenge for contributors.
“We went to the employers, we met the employees, organised clinics and educated them on it to get them on board and more than 80 per cent of our contributors have done the biometric registration,” she added.
The donation
Presenting the cheque, Mrs Abaidoo said it was the intention of the Trust to help society and to help sustain the scheme.
According to her, if the society became enlightening there would be a rise in the contributions they received and this would make the scheme more sustainable.
She said there were some contributors who had children with autism and, therefore, for such parents to have the peace of mind to work and contribute to the scheme, there was the need for her outfit to support such a worthy cause.
“We stand to help the society and workers in Ghana. By so doing we go beyond and we give back to society,” she noted.
SSNIT investments
She advised Ghanaians to do away with the negative perception that the Trust was not making the right investments.
Mrs Abaidoo said the Trust had invested in profitable areas that were doing well and making huge returns, adding that it was only a few percentage of its investments that were not doing well.
The Director for Creating New Beginning, Mr Seth Yeboah Ocran, said the money had come at a right time and would go a long way to help the facility.
He said children with autism needed special care but the current schools in the country did not have the right requirement to provide for them.
That, he said, had prompted some private institutions to attend to the needs of such children and noted that more of these facilities should be put up.
He thanked the management of SSNIT and asked other institutions to emulate the gesture.