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Govt approves NSS allowance increase from GH¢559.04 to GH¢715.57
Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has in a statement announced an increase in the monthly allowance for personnel of the Scheme.
A statement released by the Corporate Affairs Directorate of the Scheme on Sunday, July 23, 2023 disclosed that government has given clearance for the allowance to be increased from GH¢559.04 to GH¢715.57 effective January 2023.
It indicated that “all National Service Personnel who are currently in active service are entitled to arrears for the difference in the upward adjustment from January, 2023, and would be paid accordingly.”
The NSS allowance was last adjusted in January 2017 from GH¢350.00 to GH¢559 04.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme