The Social Security and National Trust (SSNIT) will soon introduce a scheme to enable informal sector subscribers to pay premium via mobile money.
Director-General, Dr John Ofori Tenkorang, revealed this at a SSNIT customer service mobile clinic and a sensitisation exercise in the Ashanti Region.
One major challenge to expanding contributions, according to SSNIT, has been how to make the informal sector benefit from the scheme without bureaucratic barriers.
“One of the things that we feel we need to do is actually to make it easier for those in small-scale enterprises, sole proprietors and entrepreneurs to make it easier for them to bring us their money,” said Dr Tenkorang
New Informal Sector Scheme
Dr John Ofori Tenkorang explains that this new informal scheme is outside the main scheme that the institution is running.
“We are trying to launch an informal sector scheme,” he said.
According to him, such a scheme will probably be one “where you can, for example, do your contribution through mobile money, maybe GHS1 or GHS2 a day.”