The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has engaged the media on the Self-Employed Enrollment Drive (SEED) in a bid to rope in self-employed people and traders onto its pension scheme.
The Public Affairs Manager of SSNIT, Charles Akwei Garshong, said most self-employed people who are not on the pension scheme will not find life easy should they retire.
He stated that the Self-Employed Enrollment Drive is an avenue for traders or persons engaged in self-employed businesses to sign up for an insurance scheme to secure their lives after retirement.
Mr. Ashong revealed further that this initiative is to reduce poverty among the older generation, adding that the majority of pensioners are mostly former employees or salaried workers; therefore, there is a need for self-employed people to join in.
“There are over 240,000 pensioners on the payroll, the majority of whom are former employees and salaried workers. [However], the scheme was established to provide pensions for all workers”, he observed.
He further stated that the scheme is not an investment scheme but an insurance scheme. He encouraged self-employed workers to insure their incomes so that they can have something to fall back on when they are no longer in active employment.
