The Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations through, the auspices of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), will allow you to link your SSNIT card to your Ghana card starting from June 28.
This move is part of the government digitalization agenda by migrating all data to the National Identification Authority(NIA) Database to create a harmonized system for the Ghana Card.
Speaking at the stakeholder meeting held, The General Secretary of SSNIT, Dr. John Ofori Tenkorang, emphasized the importance of this merger to contributors and the Trust.
“The plan is that by the end of this year, we would have merged all the numbers of our existing members and migrated them onto the NIA platform and that will enable us to ensure that the Ghana Card becomes the only accepted means of identification required for members to transact business with SSNIT, starting January 2022. So we have six months to go through this process,” he said.
“Not only will the adoption of the card provide great benefits to both members/clients and SSNIT, but it will also make us fully compliant with the National Identity Register Regulations, 2012, L.I. 2111 which requires the use of the Ghana Card as a means of identification for transactions pertaining to individuals in respect of pensions and the subsequent directives we receive from the NPRA, our regulator,” he further stated.
How to link your Ghana card to your SSNIT card
The SSNIT card becomes the latest card to be linked to the Ghana Card after the NHIS Card. The government has also made plans to replace the Ghana Card numbers with the Tax Identification Numbers(TIN). The government plans to identify and increase taxpayers in the country.
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