Ghana: Let’s Support SSNIT to Improve Viability

The assurance by the Director General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Kofi Osafo Maafo, that the SSNIT is financially viable to meet its obligations to pensioners in spite of its challenges is heart-warming.

It is also reassuring to hear that since its transformation from a provident fund as it was the case at the time of its establishment in 1972 to a pension scheme in 1991, SSNIT has never defaulted in paying pensions and benefits to the members of its pension…