Social Security and National Insurance Trust

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), has rolled out an initiative to provide pensions and related benefits to self-employed workers in the informal sector. The initiative dubbed Self-Employed Enrolment Drive (SEED), focuses on fulfilling the mandate placed on the Trust (SSNIT) to extend pension coverage to all workers especially, the self-employed. In pursuit of this agenda, the Trust in 2022 carried out extensive engagements with various stakeholders across the country to solicit their input and support on how the self-employed can also have access to pension during retirement. He said generally Speaking during the launch of SEED in…