SSB Director Mrs Jeanette A. Scatliffe-Boynes to retire July 2, 2024
In her social media post, dated April 11, 2024, she stated that her last day on the job as Director will be July 2, 2024. Mrs Scatliffe-Boynes wrote, “I deserve to clock out with excitement. I am looking forward to enjoying the joys of retirement- travel more, take up a new project, stay healthy, cook, hangout with my friends on Facebook, put my feet up, wake up late, wake up early. It’s been a work in progress and the retirement exit sign is looking good.”
Director Scatliffe-Boynes also wrote in the same post that, “So, with much excitement my retirement date is 2, July 2024. Why that date? 2, July 2024 will be 33 years since I started working at SSB, it will be SSB’s 43rd Anniversary, my 67th birthday, and now my retirement day. Full circle! To God be the glory. Guess who is excited?”.
Her retirement will mark the exit of the third Director of the SSB, one of the statutory bodies that remains very effectively run with good financial management. It is believed the Board has close to a billion dollars in the bank.
SSB a success story
Mrs Scatliffe-Boynes took over from Ms Antoinette Skelton, the second Director. The founding Director was the late Joshua J. Smith.
The Social Security Bill is one of the signature achievements of the ruling Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government and was piloted through the then Legislative Council in 1979 by late Chief Minister and VIP founder H. Lavity Stoutt. The SSB came into effect in 1980.
The SSB is a compulsory Insurance Plan to which employers, employees, and self-employed contribute. The scheme is designed to protect insured persons from financial distress by providing partial income when certain contingencies arise, according to its FB page.
In recent years, the Board has come under fire over its Joe’s Hill Manor Estate project, where they purchased some seven acres of hillside land in Joe’s Hill on Tortola for public housing.
Under fire
However, critics say the cost of the homes is not affordable for low income residents, as the starting cost is some $275, 900, according to public information from the Board.
The SSB also has oversight of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Programme, with two Deputy Directors, one for NHI, Mr Roy E. Barry and the other under the SSB, Ms Lorie A. Freeman. The SSB has a branch on the sister island of Virgin Gorda.
Director Scatliffe-Boynes could not be reached for comments before publication time.
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