About 6 million workers in the informal sector are covered by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), but less than 1% of them.
This is much lower than the 60% of the more than 3 million formal sector workers who have signed up for the program.
In a media interview, SSNIT Director-General John Ofori Tenkorang stated that the Trust launched the Self-Employed Enrollment Drive (SEED) to promote enrollment in the unorganized sector.
“When we started last year, we only had about 14,000 people enrolled on the SSNIT scheme as self-employed but today, we have about 71,000 people enrolled on the scheme as self-employed persons. The statistics I gave to the committee, if you look at the February payroll, which we have just paid, out of some 245,000 pensioners that we paid, only 630, constituting 0.3 percent, are people who have retired as self-employed persons. If you juxtapose that against the total worker population, you will see that we have a long way to go.”
