Kade SSNIT Team in a group photograph
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Kade branch has marked the annual mobile service week urging informal sector workers to consider joining the SSNIT scheme to guarantee their future.
The week-long awareness campaign took place at the Asamankese and Adeiso communities in the Eastern Region.
The Kade Branch Manager, Madam Marian Adjei, and her team visited the market women and men, tailors, barbers, seamstresses, taxi and trotro drivers as well as establishments in Asamankese and Adeiso, sensitizing them on the need to join the insurance scheme.
The Team during their engagement emphasized the need for especially entrepreneurs to secure their future with SSNIT.
The formal sector workers were also not left out. They were educated to check their statements at least twice a year and update their records such as contact number, beneficiary information, email, etc with SSNIT.
The branch provided other services during the five-day program which included statement printing, new member enrolment, member re-enrolment, employer registration, SSNIT and NIA merger, benefits processing initiation and benefit status verification, and submission and validation of contribution reports.
“Self-employed who are benefiting from the scheme should spread the good news to the self-employed who are undecided on some of the benefits they stand to gain,” Marian Adjei said.
She indicated that some benefits include the old age pension, invalidity pension, and survivors’ lump sum designed to reduce old-age dependency.
The people of Adeiso and Asamankes called on SSNIT to organize such programs often to help enrich their knowledge of SSNIT operations.
The SSNIT Mobile Service (SMS) week is an annual program organized by SSNIT across the country.
This year’s SMS week launched in Sunyani by the Director General of SSNIT Dr. John Ofori-Tenkorang said the SMS week is to create an avenue for SSNIT branches to pitch camps at vantage locations in their area of operation to bring SSNIT services closer to its member and prospective clients who hardly find time to visit their offices to transact business.
He noted that the week-long program was with the theme, “Choose Your Tomorrow, Sign Up For Seed From SSNIT Today”.
By Prince Fiifi Yorke