{"id":199313,"date":"2016-03-16T10:42:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T10:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=199313"},"modified":"2016-03-16T10:42:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T10:42:57","slug":"payment-teacher-allowances-likely-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/03\/payment-teacher-allowances-likely-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Payment of teacher allowances likely to delay"},"content":{"rendered":"
The payment of salary arrears and allowances owed the various teacher unions may delay as the teams from the Audit department and the Controller and Account General\u2019s Department (CAGD) validating the documents, are struggling with the workload<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n The Audit Department and the CAGD following claims that a number of the teachers in the country employed by the Ghana Education Service presented fake certificates, are validating the teachers’ documents before payments are made.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”KQ2IVjcNsHI4TiZljVnqo4zqTapN9ib7″]The various teacher unions; the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT), are demanding the payment of their salary arrears totaling about GHc16 million before the end of February 2016 or they will embark on a strike.<\/p>\n