The Controller and Accountant-General’s Department has received promotion input forms for 52,000 teachers, paving the way for the verification of their records ahead of the payment of salary adjustments and arrears.
Controller and Accountant-General Kwasi Agyei said the Ghana Education Service (GES) had completed the submission of the required input forms after processing the promotions on the government payroll system.
According to him, as of 2 p.m. on Thursday, October 8, the department had processed the promotions of all 52,000 teachers and received the accompanying input forms to complete the process.
The input forms, together with the teachers’ promotion letters, are now being reviewed by officials of the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department to determine which records have been successfully verified and validated for payment.
Mr Agyei said the validation exercise is expected to be completed by next week, after which payments will be processed for teachers whose records have been cleared.
“So as we speak now, I just called, and I understand they have submitted all the input forms for the 52,000. So, the input forms and the promotion letters, my team is working on them. We are verifying them, and whatever is verified and validated, as the Deputy Minister said, the intention is to pay on the 15th or before the 16th of October,” he said in an interview on Eyewitness News on Thursday, October 8.
He further disclosed that promotions not captured in the current payroll process would be processed through a supplementary payroll and subsequently reflected in the teachers’ salaries.
The development follows a directive issued by Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu on September 28 for the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service to submit data on all promoted teachers to the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department.
The directive was intended to facilitate the payment of salaries and arrears owed to teachers whose promotions had been delayed.
The delays were among concerns raised by the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) and the Pre-Tertiary Teachers Association of Ghana (PRETAG), which embarked on industrial action over outstanding issues relating to promotions, conditions of service and deprived-area allowances.
