Dar es Salaam — The Social Security Regulatory Authority (SSRA) has refuted reports in some media outlets that amendments of the Public Service Social Security Fund Act, 2017 intended to impose taxation to public servant's benefits including judges and isolate widows from benefiting with services provided by social security funds in the country.
A public statement issued on Monday, January 22 says such reports were false and misleading, noting that the government has no intention to impose taxation to benefits of retired public servants and that section 56 of the bill was wrongly translated.
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