GES backs decision for teachers living gov’t bungalows to pay 10% basic salary as rent

As instructed by the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) and stated in a Ministry of Finance Circular in 2006, teachers inhabiting Government bungalows should pay 10% of their base income as rent.

Many instructors are enraged by the Western Regional Director’s decision that all teachers inhabiting Government bungalows in schools begin paying rent and settle all arrears going back to 2006. The decision is undesirable, according to National Association of Graduate Teachers President Angel Carbonu, since tenants assume more duties by staying on campus.

According to a news statement dated March 16, 2022 and signed by Cassandra Twum Ampofo, GES’s director of Public Relations, the direction is in line with Ministry of Finance and Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee directives and recommendations. The announcement said that cost centers must ensure rent is paid.

“Management of GES wishes to reiterate that it is not the GES which is imposing the rent or determining how much is to be paid but purely being guided by the Ministry of Finance’s Circular and the recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament,” the release stressed.

Given their existing poor working circumstances, several teachers have promised to fight the plan to tax them with rent.

Read the full press release below:

GES backs decision for teachers living gov’t bungalows to pay 10% basic salary as rent

 

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