General News of Thursday, 2 November 2017Source: classfmonline.comService personnel reject insurance policySome service personnel have rejected the mandatory insurance policy by the management of NSSConcerned national service personnel have rejected plans by the management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) to introduce insurance packages of NSS personnel in the country. A statement signed by Emmanuel Asenso Adusei, Accra Metro, said: “The National Service Scheme has launched a mandatory insurance policy to deduct money every month from the non-taxable allowance it pays to service personnel despite national service personnel being against it. “The National Service Scheme yesterday launched the illegal insurance policy; so called National Service Insurance Policy. According to the Executive Director of NSS, all service personnel would pay a monthly premium of GHC15 to benefit from the insurance policy of which service personnel who suffer permanent or temporary disability through accidents during the service year will be entitled to GHc15,000 insurance cover. We therefore call upon all national service personnel to oppose this National Service Insurance Policy by openly speaking against attempts to deduct money from our allowance and demonstrate for making the policy optional and not mandatory.”

Source: GhanaWeb November 02, 2017 09:00 UTC