Old Mutual Ghana Launches New Product
Old Mutual Ghana, a corporate trustee and pension administrator has launched a new product called the Old Mutual Pensions Trust Ghana Limited. The Old Mutual Pensions Trust Company is a master...
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Let Go Your Push For 10m Pension Benefits – Lawyer To Former MPs
A private legal practitioner has implored the 40 former Members of Parliament seeking some 10million cedis pension benefits from government, to let go their demands. The 40 former MPs, who served in...
Let Go Your Push For 10million Pension Benefits – Lawyer To Former MPs
A private legal practitioner has implored the 40 former Members of Parliament seeking some 10million cedis pension benefits from government, to let go their demands. The 40 former MPs, who served in...
Informal Sector Players To Enroll On Pension Schemes
Some financial institutions have begun moves aimed at getting more workers in the informal sector to enroll on pension schemes. According to some reports, about 70 percent of Ghana’s working force...
We Deserve Our Pension Cash; We Served Ghana – David Apasara
A former Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Constituency, David Apasara, has defended the joint decision by some MPs to sue government over pensions owed them. David Apasara and thirty-nine other...
Pension Scheme Not Microfinance Investment – Informal Sector Workers Told
The National Pensions Regulatory Authority has explained to the informal sector workers that pensions scheme is different from micro finance investment, some of which have been closed by regulators...
GLICO! The Brand of Choice, Contributing To Ghana’s Growth!
AS Ghana marks sixty (60) years of independence, it is important to look back and take stock of the immense contribution of GLICO to the development of Ghana. For three (3) decades and counting,...
Government Urged To Review Pension Age
Participants at the end of the Fifth Dialogue Series workshop of the College of Humanities, University of Ghana (UG), have urged the government to review the pension age for workers upward. They were...
South Africa’s Social Security Payments In Chaos
Millions of vulnerable South Africans risk missing out on vital social security payments from next month in a scandal over a government contract, as the BBC's Milton Nkosi reports. "I'm extremely...
Indian State Flags Nation-First Pension For Widowers
Monthly cash handouts could be given to men whose wives have died in a groundbreaking new policy in the state of Haryana. Widowers could benefit as early as next year, according to state Chief...
Indian State Flags Nation-First Pension For Widowers
An Indian state said Monday it was considering giving monthly cash handouts to men who lose their wives, a first for a country that traditionally only provides such payments to women. Haryana state...
Teachers Angered By GNAT’s Increased Mutual Fund Deductions
Some basic school teachers in the Ho municipality of the Volta region are angry with managers of the Teachers Fund for increasing their monthly contributions to the fund without consulting them. The...
Government Begins Payment of Tier 2 Pension Contributions
Government has commenced the payment of the tier two pension contributions of public sector workers into their registered schemes. Twelve labour consisting of the Ghana Medical Association, the Ghana...
Gov’t Begins Payment of Tier 2 Pension Contributions
Government has commenced the payment of the tier two pension contributions of public sector workers into their registered schemes. Twelve labour consisting of the Ghana Medical Association, the Ghana...
We’re Ready To Release Locked Up Pension Funds
The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) has disclosed that it should be able to release locked up pension funds in the Temporary Pension Fund Account (TPFA) by June this year should the...
Consider Using Pension Funds To Support Power Sector
The Public Services Workers Union (PUWU) is advocating for the use of workers’ pension funds to finance the nation’s power production sector. This, in PUWU’s view, could present an alternative...
We’re Ready To Release Locked Up Pension Funds – NPRA
The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) has disclosed that it should be able to release locked up pension funds in the Temporary Pension Fund Account (TPFA) by June this year should the...
SSNIT To Bail Housing Sector
The government has hinted of its intention to rely heavily on pension funds from the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) to help bridge the housing gap in the country. The Minister...
How To Access 5% Benefit Under the 2nd Tier Occupational Pension Scheme
Under the National Pensions Act, 2008 (Act 766), the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is mandated to manage the 1stTier Pension Scheme also called the Mandatory Basic National...
The minister-nominee for Employment and Labour relations, Ignatius Baffuor-Awuah says he will investigate the cause of the delay in payment of tier two pension allowances. According to him, he will...