The Reverend Kwaku Osei Bimpong, Head of Public Affairs of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) on Tuesday called on workers not to allow their future entitlements to be mortgaged through under declaration of their actual earnings to SSNIT. He said workers should therefore declare their right incomes to SSNIT scheme and should not connive with employers to under declare their contributions. Rev. Bimpong was speaking at a day's seminar for employers organised by the Adabraka Branch Office of SSNIT in Accra. The workshop, which attracted employers from both public and private institutions, was to update workers on their responsibilities and obligations under the SSNIT Pension Scheme. The theme for the occasion was: "Building and maintaining quality data on members - The role of the employer". He said the issue of building quality data was important for workers since it would go a long way to help them benefit from the National Health Insurance Scheme. He called on employers to register newly engaged workers in their establishment as part of their obligations under the SSNIT pension scheme. He also urged workers to regularly update their contributions to the scheme from time to time in order to avoid disappointments in future. Mr. Henry Van-Hein Sackey, Branch Manager of SSNIT, Adabraka, who spoke on the topic "Effective management of members’ data" called on heads of institutions to regularly submit the contribution reports of their employees to the fund. He said it would be difficult for the Trust to build proper data on its contributors if employers do not provide them with the right information. Mr Sackey said even though some employers make the effort to pay the contributions of their workers they do not see the need to submit their reports to the scheme as an important issue. He called for effective collaboration between the scheme and employers in order to resolve all the challenges in the pension scheme. Mr Lord Senanu, Head of Compliance who also spoke on "Delays in the contribution payments, mounting arrears and penal provisions" urged employers to inform SSNIT anytime a worker retires, resigns or vacates his post on time for SSNIT to start computing for his retirement benefits. He said failure for an employer to accompany his workers’ contributions payment with reports on the due dates could be liable for prosecution and as such urge employers to comply with the Social Security Law (1991). Source: GNA