Deputy Minister of Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson made this known after inspecting the extent of work being done on the validation of documents for payment of over two year salary arrears of teachers by the Auditor General’s Department and the Controller and Account General’s Department.
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Teacher unions are being asked to validate their claims to enable payment of their salary arrears to be made.
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The Teacher Unions, including the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) earlier this year served notice of a strike on February 29, 2016 if government failed to pay them their outstanding arrears by the end of February.
The Ghana Education Service had subsequently accused the teacher unions of submitting documents that were backdated and found to be fraudulent.
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However, government after meeting with the teacher unions on Wednesday ordered the release of an amount of GHS 1,579,078.20 to settle 2012 salary arrears of teachers across the country.
Deputy Minister of Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson has however indicated that payment can only be made if teachers would assist the auditors in verifying the authenticity of the 36,000 claims which are currently being validated.
He said teachers can only access the money after the validation process is completed.
The Auditor General’s Department has meanwhile rejected about 6,000 documents submitted by teachers for the validation and processing of their salary arrears after the said documents were found to be duplicates.
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Mr Forson said those documents would be examined and teachers found culpable would be punished.
The teachers have however suspended their intended strike action following the ongoing validation process.
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