Management of SSNIT Meets Pensioners on New Live Certificate Renewal Policy


 Management of the Social Security and National Insurance Scheme (SSNIT) has engaged Regional and District Executives of Pensioners’ Associations in the Ashanti Region to sensitize them on a new pensioner certificate renewal policy aimed at sanitizing the pension payroll and protecting benefits meant for rightful beneficiaries.


The policy, which targets old-age and invalidity pensioners, introduces an annual live certificate renewal process designed to confirm the number of living pensioners, eliminate ghost names from the system, and prevent pension payments from being made into the accounts of deceased beneficiaries.


According to SSNIT, the scheme has in the past paid pensions to over 31,000 individuals whose benefits ended up in the wrong hands, a situation the new policy seeks to prevent.


More than 150  executives from various districts in the Ashanti Region, including Dunkwa, Nkawie, Obuasi, and Adum, attended the sensitization meeting.


Under the new arrangement, pensioners are required to renew their certificates once every year during their birth month. The renewal can be done through the SSNIT mobile application, manually at SSNIT offices, and through other approved channels.



SSNIT explained that the policy will help safeguard pension benefits, ensure faster detection of deceased pensioners, prevent pension funds from being locked up in banks, and improve fund availability for investment and timely pension payments.


Speaking at the meeting held on February 6, 2026, at the SSNIT Adum Office, the Zonal Head of the Ashanti Regional National Pensions Regulatory Authority, Mr. Kofi Asare Abrokwa, said the authority is motivated when pensioners receive their benefits, as it reflects the achievement of SSNIT’s objectives as a social insurance institution.


Mr. Abrokwa further appealed to organised labour and workers’ unions to advocate for improved salaries, explaining that higher contributions to SSNIT would translate into better pension benefits upon retirement.

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