CAGD pays public sector salaries

Accra, Feb. 29, GNA – The Controller and Accountant General's Department (CAGD) paid the salaries of workers on the Government of Ghana Mechanised Payroll System on Monday, February 27.

Those who qualify for arrears on migration to the Single Spine Salary Structure were also paid their three months difference.

Mr Andrews K. K. Kuffe, the Deputy Controller of CAGD in charge of Financial Management Service, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview on Wednesday, that the Department sent the requisite details authorizing the payments to the commercial banks in the Greater Accra Region on Monday.

However, those for the regions and the districts were dispatched on Sunday, February 26.

“By God's Grace and dint of hard work of our able workers we were able to solve the technical problems which caused the delay,” he said.

On February 21, the CAGD issued a statement, explaining that it could not pay February salaries of public sector workers on February 21, as scheduled because of some technical problems involving their machines. It promised to start the payment on Wednesday, February 29.

Mr Kuffe said information received by Department from various parts of the country indicated that many commercial banks had credited workers with their salaries.

He, therefore, appealed to those banks which were yet to effect payment to expedite action on the process.

“We are very grateful to the banks which have worked speedily to pay the salaries and we also thank workers for their patience and cooperation in bearing with the delay,” he said.

He also advised the commercial banks to work with individual public sector workers who had anomalies with their account information to normalize the situation quickly to prevent delays in the payment of their salaries.

Reacting to complaints from some workers that their paid three months single spine salary arrears was less than what they received in December, when they received their first three months payment; he said it was wrong to compare the receipts as it was not guaranteed to be the same.

He said previous salary adjustments, taxes and other elements of the payroll could affect the amount of money to be paid to increase or reduce.

Mr Kuffe, therefore, advised beneficiaries to contact the Clients Service Unit of the Department at the head office and the regional and district offices of the CAGD for interpretation of the items on their pay slips.

Workers, he said, should also take advantage of the training programmes on the salary process to understand the elements on pay slips.

GNA