{"id":182390,"date":"2024-10-12T06:21:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T04:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ssnit-financially-strong-to-meet-obligations-d-g\/"},"modified":"2024-10-12T06:21:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T04:21:08","slug":"ghana-ssnit-financially-strong-to-meet-obligations-d-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ssnit-financially-strong-to-meet-obligations-d-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: SSNIT Financially Strong to Meet Obligations &#8211; D-G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Director General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Kofi Osafo Maafo, has said SSNIT is viable in a strong financial position to meet their obligations to pensioners in spite of the challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;SSNIT has never defaulted in paying of pensions and benefits since the scheme was established,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Mr Maafo gave the assurance in Accra yesterday during an engagement with pensioners amidst public criticism that the scheme was not sustainable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">He said as of August this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410110476.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Kofi Osafo Maafo, has said SSNIT is viable in a strong financial position to meet their obligations to pensioners in spite of the challenges. &#8220;SSNIT has never defaulted in paying of pensions and benefits since the scheme was established,&#8221; he said. Mr Maafo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,16263,4508,4509,6508,257,31959,254,6726,6948],"class_list":["post-182390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-financially","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-meet","tag-news","tag-obligations","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ssnit","tag-strong"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}