{"id":368070,"date":"2017-11-04T09:56:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T09:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=368070"},"modified":"2017-11-04T09:56:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T09:56:01","slug":"naspa-requested-for-insurance-package-nss-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/naspa-requested-for-insurance-package-nss-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"NASPA requested for insurance package \u2013 NSS Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"
The National Service Secretariat (NSS) has denied that it imposed the recently launched insurance\u00a0program on service personnel.<\/p>\n
It said the decision to introduce the insurance package for personnel this year, was based on a proposal by the leadership of the National Service Personnel Association (NASPA).<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”eXTn2BIXFy41V0t8wUE9jEjlpHOOdGIQ”]The acting Executive Director of the NSS, Ussif Mustapha, in an interview with Citi News<\/strong> said, the newly launched insurance package was an improvement upon what the leaders of NASPA proposed.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a congress in Kumasi, the highest decision making body of NASPA, at the Congress proposed that they have a welfare health insurance package for all service personnel\u2026. I was sitting here in my office on 27th<\/sup> May when I received a resolution from NASPA. I went through thoroughly to ensure that I take the best decision with whatever facilitation I have to do that will favour NASPA.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, they coming out with what they want and I facilitating to make sure that it is better for service personnel is what I did,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n His explanation comes after some personnel of the scheme criticized the secretariat for \u2018imposing\u2019 the insurance program on them.<\/p>\n One of the personnel, Gyamfi Shadrack Gyasi said, \u201cwe are against it. They didn\u2019t sit down with us to gather our views. They don\u2019t know whether some personnel have already gotten a private insurance policy. This is a way to steal from us. GH\u00a2 15 is too much. If they want to help us with an insurance policy, they should contact the government and do that for us, but not take money from the meager money we earn. We are against it. It must be optional,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The\u00a0<\/a>insurance package<\/a><\/span><\/strong> will see a monthly deduction of GH\u00a2 15 from their meager allowance of GH\u00a2559.<\/p>\n The program is a partnership between the secretariat, MTN and Glico Life Insurance and was launched earlier this week to cover the over 90,000 personnel.<\/p>\n Benefits of the insurance scheme include free phone calls and text messages among MTN users. Monthly MTN data allocation.<\/p>\n The claims vary from GHc 15,000 in cases of death or incapacitation, and gh3,000 for cases of temporary disability.<\/p>\n As part of the insurance package, National Service personnel are entitled to a GHc 500 loan which is payable within six months.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, reports suggest that management of the National Service Scheme are considering proposals to make the insurance program optional.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Service Secretariat (NSS) has denied that it imposed the recently launched insurance\u00a0program on service personnel. It said the decision to introduce the insurance package for personnel this year, was based on a proposal by the leadership of the National Service Personnel Association (NASPA). [contextly_sidebar id=”eXTn2BIXFy41V0t8wUE9jEjlpHOOdGIQ”]The acting Executive Director of the NSS, Ussif Mustapha, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11],"tags":[3,37,2062],"yoast_head":"\n