The Social Security and National Insurance Trust is leveraging digitalization to improve its service delivery while targeting the enrollment of persons in the informal sector following the outfit’s effort to scale up its operations which has resulted in high enrollment since last year.
Launching the digital platforms at the mobile service week in the Central Region, the Director General of SSNIT, Kofi Bosompem Osafo Maafo announced that a total
of 100, 000 new informal contributors have registered with SSNIT following last year’s successful registration of some 13,000 informal contributors after rolling out the Self Employed Enrollment Drive (SEED) program.
According to the director general, the program, SEED is targeted at the facilitation of the enrollment of both small and large-scale informal workers and entrepreneurs to ensure the best pension for all.
So far, informal sector contributors of SSNIT represent just one percent of the organization’s total contributors.
Mr Osafo Maafo urged persons in the informal sector to join SSNIT, stating that it offers the best pension benefits while offering the assurance of security of investment.
He noted that SSNIT has gone under rigorous structural reforms resulting to prompt payment of benefits.
The digital platform, according to him, will facilitate self enrollment, the tracking of contributions as well as other services of SSNIT.
Speaking to Metro News, SSNIT’s Senior Manager for IT Applications Development, Felix Joseph Bruce-Smith said the digital platform offers a variety of services including online member enrollment using the Ghana card, contribution processing and payments, introduction of employer registration, compliance certificate management among others and expected to make easier the accessibility of SSNIT’s services.
By: Akwasi Addo | Metrotvonline.com | Ghana
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