{"id":152822,"date":"2025-09-18T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152822\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:41:09","slug":"highest-pensioner-in-ghana-to-receive-gh%c2%a2201792-monthly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152822\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest pensioner in Ghana to receive GH\u00a2201,792 monthly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Highest-pensioner-in-Ghana-to-receive-GH-201-792-monthly-2001240?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/55369000.295.jpg\" alt=\"The top earner saw an 8.04% rise from GH\u00a2186,777.58 in December 2024\" title=\"The top earner saw an 8.04% rise from GH\u00a2186,777.58 in December 2024\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/> <\/a>The top earner saw an 8.04% rise from GH\u00a2186,777.58 in December 2024<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">A newly released report by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has revealed a striking disparity in pension payments across Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Indexation of Pensions 2025 league tables, the highest-paid pensioner in the country will receive a monthly pension of GH\u00a2201,792.37, an amount that is 392 times greater than the lowest-paid pensioner, who earns just GH\u00a2514.41.<\/p>\n<p>The data also highlights contrasting rates of increase applied during the 2025 indexation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/Cedi-weakens-further-to-sell-at-GH-12-25-to-1-on-interbank-market-2001213\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cedi weakens further to sell at GH\u00a212.25 to $1 on interbank market<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the top earner saw an 8.04% rise from GH\u00a2186,777.58 in December 2024, the lowest-paid pensioner received a more substantial percentage increase of 25.74%, moving from GH\u00a2409.10 to GH\u00a2514.41.<\/p>\n<p>The league tables list the ten highest and ten lowest pension earners, with top-tier pensions starting from GH\u00a258,031.91 and bottom-tier payments reaching up to GH\u00a2669.54.<\/p>\n<p>As Ghana faces ongoing economic challenges and rising living costs, the wide gap in retirement incomes is sparking renewed attention, particularly for pensioners whose earnings fall well below the national average.<\/p>\n<p>SA<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ssnit_report..jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Watch the latest edition of BizTech below:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top earner saw an 8.04% rise from GH\u00a2186,777.58 in December 2024 A newly released report by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-152822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}