Scores of pensioners and public sector workers have expressed dismay at the pension package offered by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) saying they would embark on industrial action if the anomaly was not rectified.

“There will be total lockdown of public sector activities on June 25, if SSNIT does not follow the correct procedure and formula in paying past credits to pensioners,” Mr Isaac Bampoe Addo, Chairman of the Forum for Public Sector Registered Pensions Schemes, said.

Members to undertake the industrial action are Health Service Workers’ Union, Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, Ghana Physician Assistants’ Association, Government Hospital Pharmacists’ Association, and the Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anesthetists.

Others are the Ghana Education Service Occupational Pension Scheme set up by the Ghana Association of Teachers, Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union, the National Association of Graduate Teachers, and Coalition of Concerned Teachers, Ghana. Mr Bampoe Addo, flanked by Mr Thomas T. Musah, the General Secretary of Ghana Education Service Occupational Scheme, Mrs Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo, representing the Health Sector Occupational Pension Scheme, and Mr Derrick Annan for the Judicial Service Occupational Pension Scheme affirmed their commitment to fight for improved pension.

He explained that Past Credits were lump sums that contributors had earned prior to 2010 before retirement. He said in accordance with Act 766 of the Pensions Act, Past Credits must be transferred to the private schemes, which SSNIT had not complied with.

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