The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has extended the deadline for Scheme members to combine their SSNIT and Ghana Card numbers until June 30, 2022.
The original deadline was set for December 31, 2021.
SSNIT says the Ghana Card will be the sole identification number it recognizes from July 1, 2022.
“This is in compliance with Regulation 7 (1) of the National Identity Register Regulations, 2012, L.I. 2111, which requires the use of the Ghana Card as identification for “transactions pertaining to individuals in respect of pensions” and “transactions that have social security implications”,” it explained in a statement.
Employers will be obliged to process Contribution Reports and issue payments using just their employees’ Ghana Card numbers.
Voluntary donors will also be required to use their Ghana Card numbers to make their donations.
The trust warned that “members who fail to merge their SSNIT and NIA numbers will be denying themselves access to pensions and other social security related services from SSNIT.”
It also stated that “there will be no further extension beyond the 30th June 2022 deadline.”
On June 28, 2021, SSNIT started deploying technology to Scheme members to integrate their SSNIT and Personal ID numbers on their Ghana Cards.
However, not all SSNIT cardholders have been able to go through the merger procedure, with the majority blaming it on the Ghana Cards’ inaccessibility.
As of December 31, approximately 500,000 Trust members had not combined their Ghana Cards with their SSNIT numbers.
This caused the National Identification Authority to suggest an extension of the SSNIT’s deadline for scheme participants to integrate their SSNIT and Ghana Card numbers.
Ghanaians are racing against the clock to sign up for the Ghana Card, since the deadline for re-registering SIM cards is March 31, 2022.
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SOURCE: CITINEWS
