Story by Nathaniel Nartey
All is set for the roll out of the Public Services Workers Union, PSWU Fund and the Mutual Health Insurance Scheme following the approval of the Board of Trustees by the National Executive Council of the Union.
This is in response to the resolution of members on welfare issues passed at the 10th Quadrennial Delegates Conference held last year and subsequently incorporated into the PSWU Strategic Plan.
Effective March 2022, 2%of their salaries of members will be deducted at source for the operationalization of the fund.
General Secretary of the PSWU Benard Adjei urged members not to worry about the deductions and focus on the benefits available to members.
He told Nathaniel Nartey that the Union will collate the views of members who wish no to take part in the PSWU Fund.
“The fund has been designed such that members can contribute to it, access loans at affordable rates because we are contributing to help ourselves…..the fund has been registered already, the Board of Trustees have already been approved by the NEC, everything is in place its only the deduction that is yet to commence…education and sensitization is still ongoing so I wouldn’t want any member to be disturbed about it”.
On the Mutual Health Insurance Scheme, Mr Adjei explained that members automatically benefit from the Critical illness fund under the scheme, stressing that no deductions will be made for that scheme
“We are establishing a Critical Illness Fund (which is a component of the Mutual Health Insurance Scheme) and for that the member doesn’t have to contribute directly, just by being a member and paying your dues to PSWU a portion of that is going to be used to service that fund to service some critical illnesses like, kidney diseases, heart attack or stroke and cancer which have become common these days to support our members”.
