Pension Scheme For Creative People Is Very Important To President Akufo Addo - Dep. Minister, Mark Okraku-Mantey | general-entertainment

Deputy minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Hon. Mark Okraku Mantey has said how retirement advantages for Ghanaian entertainers could be very paramount to President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo's government.

Addressing stakeholders within the leisure business at on the necessity for entertainers to plan for his or her pension after they retire from energetic music, performing business, trend poetry and creatives usually.

The interactive session dubbed “Creative Arts Stakeholders Pension Conversation” which was organized by the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, passed off on the Alisa Hotel on Friday November, 4 2022.

It was properly attended and obtained by leaders of assorted associations throughout the inventive arts business, veteran musicians and actors share issues about their retirement and pension and the way it may be design to go well with their subject of endeavor.

Hon. Okraku Mantey intimated that this dialog about pension for entertainers in Ghana is an important one and it's expensive to the center of the president of the republic, President Akufo Addo, so he(The President) has tasked minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Hon. Awal Mohammed and his ministry to do all the pieces of their energy to ensure entertainers in Ghana get the very best pension schemes, consideration the dynamic nature of their occupation.

According to him, some veteran musicians have been very enormous within the 70s and 80s however of their previous ages however they have been penniless and struggled to make ends meet as a result of there have been no pension plans in place for them up to now.

He urged stakeholders to reap the benefits of the alternatives created by his ministry and have a all the way down to earth dialog with pension scheme suppliers comparable to bankers, insurance coverage corporations and so forth. to know the assorted pension, insurance coverage and funding packages they'll provide in order that entertainers can subscribe to, so they won't endure the identical destiny as their predecessors.

Hon. Okraku Mantey entered the banks and insurance coverage corporations to determine pension packages which might be tailored for folks within the creatives and still have the tolerance and persistence to find out about their issues to allow them to customise their merchandise to go well with them properly.

Some of the establishments current to share count on information on pensions and investments contains; Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Standard Chartered Bank, Hollard Insurance, Quality Life Assurance Company Limited, amongst others.