Liberia: Government Concludes One-Day Symposium for Over 250 HRs and Comptrollers On the Benefits of Social Security Contributions

Monrovia — On Monday, February 15, 2021 the Government of Liberia through the Joint Payroll Management Team of the Civil Service Agency (CSA) and the Ministry of Finance & Development Planning (MFDP) in collaboration with the National Social Security and Welfare Corporation (NASSCORP) organized an interactive training and awareness symposium on the benefits of social security contribution central government employees.

Speaking on behalf of the Director-General of the Civil Service Agency(CSA), Mr. Alfred Dorsaye, Principal Administrative Officer at the Civil Service Agency welcome participants to the symposium and explained that part of the CSA core mandate is to ensure the welfare of all government employees through various programs and initiatives. He lamented further that to achieve this, the role of Human Resource Personnel and Financial Comptrollers is critical.

“It is in pursuit of this desire the Director-General rallied the partner with the Ministry of Finance & Development Planning (MFDP) and the National Social Security and Welfare Corporation (NASSCORP) to initiate this training and awareness workshop to interacts with Human Resource Personnel and Financial Comptrollers”. Mr. Dorsaye concluded by encouraging the HRs and Comptrollers to listen attentively to the presentations, interacts so they can better educate their respective employees about the processes and benefits of social security.

Also Speaking at the program, Mr. Del-Francis Wreh, Executive Director of Liberia Macroeconomic Policy Analysis Center (LIMPAC) and Head of the Joint Payroll Management Team explained that there was significant change to methodology for Social Security deduction after the Government Payroll Harmonization process which needed to be properly explained to HRs and employees of spending entities to avoid misunderstanding and confusions, and rejection of the social security scheme. Before the national harmonization in July 2019, most government employee’s social security contribution was only calculated on their minimum Liberian Dollar Basic Salary, leaving out the larger amount of the general allowance. This lower social security contribution meant lower pension benefit after employees were retired by the government, which has resulted into many employee’s refusal to get retired after the required years of services.

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