The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) on August 30, 2024, launched this year’s Self-Employed Enrollment Drive (SEED) campaign durbed Oparetion-A-ton in Wa, the Upper West Regional Capital to encourage the informal sector workers to enroll on to the Trust.
Addressing the media after a float through the principal streets of Wa, the Ag. Deputy Corporate Affairs Manager of SSNIT Victoria Gifty Abaidoo said the SEED was initiated last year, and they have increased enrollment from 13,000 to over 100,000 self-employed workers on to the scheme.
Victoria further revealed that Oparetion-A-ton is a national campaign geared towards introducing SSNIT to the informal sector workers, sensitizing and registering them on to the scheme so that they can retire on a good income.
She, however, emphasized that every worker can enroll to the scheme and decide how much to contribute monthly. Adding that apart from the monthly old age pension, a member is also entitled to invalidity pension, survival lump sum, in case of ill health.
“We have coined this as operation-A-ton just to introduce ourselves out there as people who care for workers of this country, an institution that has the interests of workers in this country. Just because we care for every worker in this country, that every worker having to work so hard and retire will have to retire on good income”, she said.
The Corporate Affairs Manager noted that the campaign seeks to erase the notion that SSNIT is for the formal sector workers and to make those working for themselves know that, they can register and contribute to the scheme, via mobile money and official SSNIT agents.
According to Victoria Gifty Abaidoo, the only requirement one needs to register on to the scheme is the National Identification Card and must be between the ages 15 and 45 to enable them to contribute and enjoy their labour after 60 years to eradicate old age poverty.
