23rd August 2023 10:00:36 AM
2 mins readThe National Service Secretariat (NSS) has reassured personnel that all allowances owed them for the first half of 2023 will be paid.
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The Secretariat, however, did not indicate the exact date the outstanding monies would be paid.
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This comes on the back of the approval for an upward adjustment of monthly allowances for National Service personnel from GH¢559 to GH¢715.57.
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In June this year, the Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) announced that the government had approved the upward adjustment of monthly allowances for national service personnel from GH¢599.04 to GH¢715.57.
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According to a press release dated July 18, 2023 and signed by the Deputy Minister for Finance, Abena Osei Opare, the National Service Scheme, Fair Wages and Salary Commission, and the Ministry of Finance engaged in a series of discussions that led to the approval and raise.
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The release also directed the Controller and Accountant-General to give effect to the new levels of the personnel allowances.
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It also stated that “In effect, all National Service Personnel who are currently are entitled to arrears for the difference in the upward adjustment from January 2023, and would be paid accordingly.”
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Meanwhile, reiterating government’s commitment, the acting head of corporate affairs for the National Service Scheme, Ambrose Entsiwah Junior, indicated in a media engagement that payment of the adjusted allowance will be backdated to January and paid to personnel.
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“We were owing them [NSS personnel] for the month of June and July together with the arrears and last Friday, we paid them the June allowances, and we are working toward paying them the arrears which had been approved by the Ministry of Finance, and we have asked them to submit their data.”
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“Maximum two weeks, we will pay the arrears from January to June, and after we have paid the arrears, we will pay the July allowance with the new rate.”
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The last change to the NSS allowance was from GH 350.00 to GH 559 in January 2017.
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