The National Service Secretariat intends to alter the present allowance for National Service Personnel, according to the Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS).
As a result of the personnel's agitation, this has happened.
Weachea Awaregya, the President of the Coalition of Suffering National Service Personnel Group, has advocated for a raise in the stipend to address the country's present economic woes.
Gifty Oware-Mensah, speaking on JoyNews' The Pulse on Wednesday, claimed that the new stipend will be more than what the Service people had recommended.
She noted that these ideas have been presented to the Parliamentary Education Committee.
Madam Oware-Mensah, on the other hand, did not specify the specific sum to be paid. National Service Personnel (NSPs) are now paid a monthly stipend of GH559.04.
"Unfortunately, all we can come up with will be the figures when it comes up for appropriation," she added, "but at this moment, all I can tell is that it will be more than the GH800 they are demanding."
In Monday, the Coalition of Suffering National Service Personnel protested their unpaid allowance on the streets of Accra. The group, dressed in red and holding banners, demanded that their three-month payment, which was in arrears, be paid.
They claim that due to recent price increases in products and services, the delay in payment of their allowance is creating financial hardship.
In response, the National Service Scheme's Deputy Executive Director disputed charges that the scheme owed certain NSPs three months' allowance arrears.
According to her, as of April 2022, the Service had paid 67,000 people, with only those who had not filed their monthly assessment forms still to be paid.
The Service, according to Gifty Oware-Mensah, would expedite payment for staff who have not yet submitted their monthly assessment forms.
"Many of them have not completed their monthly assessment, or have submitted it late, and so, after we pay the general one, there are a few payments that we have to make, which we do before we pay our next in line." So absolutely, we will make sure they are paid, and if you did not work for any month, you will not be paid," she said.