Kwesi Agyei, the Controller and Accountant-General, has announced that over 4,000 public sector workers on the government payroll owe outstanding student loans.
According to the Controller and Accountant-General, his office is working in collaboration with the Student Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) to recover the debts.
He announced that the outstanding student loan obligations owed to the Student Loan Trust Fund will be recovered through salary deductions.
The Controller and Accountant-General highlighted that the deductions will be in line with the applicable legal and regulatory framework governing public sector payroll administration.
He disclosed that the initiative is aimed at strengthening loan recovery and ensuring the sustainability of the scheme to benefit more students.
Speaking at the launch of the Fund’s 20th anniversary celebrations on Thursday, June 18, Kwesi Agyei explained, “We have already identified over 4,000 on the government payroll through the collaboration with the Trust Fund”.
“In the coming days, we will engage with the Trust Fund on the modalities of implementing these deductions. We envisage that this deduction will become one of the important statutory sanctions on their salaries,” he said.
The Controller and Accountant-General disclosed that the move would help reinforce compliance and improve the long-term sustainability of student financing in the country.
In other news, the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD) has defended the government payroll system while rejecting claims that a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Defence received unearned salaries totalling GH¢427 million over 29 months.
According to the CAGD, Ghana’s payroll system makes such payments “impossible.”
The CAGD highlighted that its systems include safeguards that include variance analysis, condition-of-service verification, and bank-level payment reconciliation to ensure accuracy in the processing of the payroll.
In a statement issued on April 20, 2026, the CAGD dismissed the allegations and defended the government payroll system, saying, “The Government of Ghana payroll system runs on controls and automations which allow only approved pay structures by the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to be processed for employees eligible by their conditions of service”.
“Monthly salaries are paid to eligible employees on the Government of Ghana payroll after online validation… These monthly payments are further subjected to internal quality processes to validate each salary payment,” it said.
“It is therefore impossible under the current payroll arrangement to pay a government employee salary in excess of what is legally due that employee,” the statement said.
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