According to information gathered by the BBC Ghana from the Ghanaian News Agency (GNA), the
Government is set to resume the payment of nursing and teacher trainee
allowances using the e-zwich biometric system.
The payment of the allowance to the trainees has been
handed over to the Student Loan Trust Fund
(SLTF), the body mandated to disburse loans to tertiary students.
The SLTF has been using the e-zwich to disburse
students’ loan over the years and is the same system that will be used to pay
the trainee nursing and teachers’ allowance.
The use of e-zwich to
disburse such funds is also expected to inculcate in the students, the habit of
using electronic payment cards and eventually discourage the over-reliance on
cash for transactions.
Commenting on the development, the Chief Executive
Officer of Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS) Mr. Archie
Hesse, commended the government for allowing these payments to be made
through e-zwich.
According to the information, nurses and teacher
trainees are expected to receive their awaited allowances by the close of next
week.
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