SSNIT increases pension payment

Accra, Jan. 4, GNA - The Social Security and National

Insurance Trust (SSNIT) announced on Tuesday an increase in

pensions for 2011 by GH¢10.03 for each pensioner on the pension

payroll as at December 31, 2010. A statement signed by Evangeline Amegashie, Corporate

Affairs Manager of SSNIT, said pensioners already on the

minimum pension of GH¢42.11 as at December 2010 would from

January 2011 be on GH¢52.14. It said the new minimum pension for 2011 new pensioners

would be GH¢45.06 per month.