Salaries of 3,794 gov’t employees suspended

The Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) has suspended the payment of salaries of a total of 3,794 government employees without social security numbers on the mechanised payroll.

The affected employees would from the end of October not be receiving their salaries because they did not produce their social security information.

This was disclosed in a circular signed by Mrs Grace Adzroe, the Controller and Accountant-General and copied to the Ghana News Agency.

The update of social security information of employees on the payroll system was part of the Public Financial Management Reform programme, which aimed at cleaning the mechanised payroll database.

According to the circular which was to inform heads of ministries, departments and agencies ,including the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies , all employees without the social security numbers are advised to provide requisite information for their numbers to be captured on the payroll system.

However, it said, at the end of September, which was the deadline for the directive, the 3,794 affected employees, comprising 2,647 from the Ghana Education Service and 1,147 others, did not provide the information, hence, the salary suspension.

In June 2015, the CAGD reported that, there were 27,805 employees who did not have their social security numbers on the payroll system and on September 7, the Department issued a statement imploring all employees to provide them by end of September.