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Massive transfers hit YEA

Over 200 workers have been affected in the latest exercise which is intended to reposition the agency for higher productivity.

The 16,000 names were deleted from the payroll after an internal audit and is said to have saved the economy GHC20 million.

“A total of 16,839 beneficiaries have been deleted from the payroll, and this has saved the taxpayer as much as twenty million, two hundred and six thousand, eight hundred cedis,” Justine Kodua Frimpong, the acting chief executive officer of the agency has said.

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Of this number, 2,716 beneficiaries did not have appointment letters while another set 4,681 people had vacated their posts but were receiving salaries. 9,442 beneficiaries were also not within the age range required to be part of the youth employment initiative.

According to Frimpong, the agency will make a decision about the fate of beneficiaries without letters of appointments within a month.

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