Teachers With Unpaid September Salaries Given October 1 Deadline to Restore Payments
Teachers who have not received their salaries for the month because of Ghana Card linkage issues and other related problems have been directed to submit documents for the reactivation of their salary payments.
A notice issued by the Human Resource Management and Development function, signed “HRMD for MDE,” asks all affected teachers to submit the required documents to the Directorate by 12:00 noon on Thursday, October 1, 2026.
The notice is particularly relevant to teachers who have not received their expected salary and are affected by issues connected to the linkage of their Ghana Card or other related salary-payment matters. The notice itself does not provide details about the number of teachers affected or the specific Directorate involved.
Teachers must submit documents for salary reactivation
According to the notice, affected teachers are required to prepare an Application for Reactivation Letter, a Cover Letter from their Headteacher, their current payslip, Ghana Card and SSNIT Card.
The Directorate requires four copies of each document.
The documents are to be submitted before the stated deadline so that the Directorate can process the applications and forward them to the Regional Directorate by the close of day on October 1.
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The requirement means that teachers affected by the salary issue need to act within the stated timeframe rather than waiting for the salary problem to resolve automatically.
Deadline for affected teachers
The deadline given in the notice is Thursday, October 1, 2026, at 12:00 noon.
The Directorate says the deadline is necessary because the applications must subsequently be processed and submitted to the Regional Directorate by the end of the same day.
Teachers who submit their documents after the deadline have therefore been warned that their applications may not be processed within the required timeframe.
The notice does not state when affected teachers will receive their outstanding salaries after their applications have been processed. It only explains that the documents are required to enable the reactivation process to begin.
Teachers advised to check their bank accounts
The notice also contains an important instruction for teachers who have not yet visited their respective banks.
They have been advised to check whether their salaries have already been paid before proceeding with the submission.
This means teachers who believe they are affected are being asked to confirm their payment status with their banks, particularly if they have not yet checked their accounts.
The notice does not state that every teacher who has not received a salary has been affected by Ghana Card linkage. Instead, it refers to Ghana Card linkage issues and other related reasons as the basis for the salary-payment problem affecting some teachers.
What affected teachers need to do
Affected teachers should therefore ensure that they have the required reactivation application, the covering letter from their Headteacher, current payslip, Ghana Card and SSNIT Card ready for submission.
The Directorate specifically requires four copies of each document, and the submission deadline is 12:00 noon on October 1, 2026.
The notice says the documents will be processed and submitted to the Regional Directorate by the close of day.
For teachers who have not yet checked with their banks, the immediate advice contained in the notice is to first establish whether their salary has already been credited.
Latest salary development for affected teachers
The notice provides a formal administrative step for teachers whose salaries have not been received and whose cases require reactivation. However, it does not provide information about the broader status of the ongoing teachers’ strike, the number of teachers affected, the total amount of unpaid salaries or when all affected teachers should expect payment.
Those details are not contained in the supplied notice and have therefore not been added to this report.
For now, the clearest action contained in the notice is the October 1, 2026, 12:00 noon deadline for affected teachers to submit four copies each of the required documents. Teachers who believe they are affected should also check their bank accounts if they have not yet done so.
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