An Amount of GH¢36,107,957.75 was saved to government between April and August this year, following the rollout of the payroll audit by the Fair Wages and Salary Commission (FWSC), the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Commission, Mr Ben Arthur has disclosed.
The savings were made following the detection of some anomalies including ghost names, wrong placement on the salary structure, and wrong payment of allowance and different dates of birth for some employees.
Addressing a news conference in Accra yesterday, Mr Arthur said in addition to the savings made, the wage bill for the 17 institutions where the audit was undertaken had been declining from January 2023 to March 2023, whilst the percentage change in wage bill for May and June 2023 was -1.77per cent and -2.95 per cent respectively as compared to that of April.
He explained that in the months of July and August, the total wage bill recorded a decline of six per cent and one per cent respectively also resulting in a cost savings of GH¢178,359,098.51 and GH¢18,447,396.30 in July and August.
Mr Arthur said additional findings from eight other institutions so far, had shown that if the anomalies found were…
