The Nation Builder’s Corps program has completed the resolution of challenges it encountered with processing of stipends for some 9,235 beneficiaries.
This was revealed by Minister of Information; Kojo Oppong Nkrumah at a Press briefing held in Koforidua.
Some beneficiaries of the NABCO programme complained their monthly stipend of 700 Cedis was not forthcoming though other colleagues on the same programme were being paid.
“NABCO stipends for 2018 were fully funded in the 2018 budget and payments commenced for some 77,907 beneficiaries. However, some 18,001 beneficiaries unfortunately did not receive their stipends for various reasons as outlined below” he said and explained that the difficulties encountered called for a halt in further processing of the payroll for the data sets to be corrected. “Indeed, the NABCO secretariat sent messages to beneficiaries to correct their data for it to be rekeyed into the system”.
He hinted that 9,235 of the NABCO beneficiaries have corrected their data and thus will be paid this week. “Their December and regular stipends are also programmed to be paid immediately afterwards” he revealed.
The information minister revealed that another 8,766 still have outstanding data issues and are encouraged to correct their data as requested of them in messages sent to them so they can be paid as soon as possible.
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