"SSNIT members’ contributions are safe and we can guarantee them secured pensions"

The Director-General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Mr. Kwesi Afreh Biney has assured Ghanaians that the Trust remain strong as it has consistently paid pensions in the last 60 years without fail.

According to him, the value of the Trust’s investments kept growing, thereby creating avenues for uninterrupted payment of pensions and other obligations in the years ahead.

Mr. Afreh Biney gave the assurance in a media interaction in Tamale, on the sidelines of a 2026 Employers Workshop organized by the SSNIT for the Northern Region.

“At the end of 2024, the value of invested Assets under management was 20.4 billion Cedis and in 2025, this has grown in excess of 25 billion Cedis and these are positive indications that the Trust is growing,” the DG of SNNIT stated.

Mr Biney said SNNIT had improved on monthly collection from contributors, in addition to improving systems for payment of pensions, due to deliberate public education and awareness on compliance.

“Year in year out, we improve on our collection and our systems too are being improved which enables us to make payment to people who go on pension,” he explained.

Mr. Biney, added that SSNIT beyond its mandate s repositioning as a service led business that is bringing convenience to the people it serve, thus making it easier for them to access services.

“We have scaled up our digital channels and offerings like the virtual branches through which clients can interact and engage the TRUST without entering any of our branches, and we called that our 54th branch,” the Director General stated.

SSNIT has also leveraged on its relationship with banks by becoming Co-location Points. Mr. Biney indicated that this will would be scaled up thereby bringing convenience and accessibility to clients.“This year alone, the trust plans to open 100 of such co-location points across the country.”

Turning to other developments, Mr. Biney said SSNIT is developing a loyalty programme that enables the Trust to negotiate with negotiate with retailers and service points to members to get discounts when they are accessing their services.

“Beyond Pension – when we look at the data, SSNIT had 2.1 million active members with 267 thousand plus pensioners. This is a very potent economic force, who what we are doing is to tap into this economic strength in order to create value for our members,” Mr. Biney stated.

He also mentioned telemedicine initiative which will be rolled out by the end of June this year that would afford contributors in localities without medical access dial into the telemedicine facility located at the Trust Hospital in Accra, thereby receiving health care advice among others, as some of the transformation and benefits contributors should expect.

Story By: Nelson Adanuti Nyadror |www.diamondfmonline.com |Ghana.