National Hospital Insurance Fund, NHIF , registers all eligible members from both the formal and informal sector. For those in the formal sector, it is compulsory to be a member. For those in the informal sector and retirees, membership is open and voluntary. To register with NHIF as a member, fill in the Members Form. To register as an employer or organized group, fill in the Employers Form.
NHIF SUPA Cover is Kenya’s largest, reliable, accessible and affordable medical insurance cover that enables you and your family to enjoy an unparalleled benefit package. Supa Cover costs Kshs. 500 per month for the principal members and beneficiaries.
What Does SUPA Cover Entail?
Outpatient services – Consultation, Laboratory, investigations, daycare procedures, drugs and dispensation, health education, wellness and counselling, physiotherapy services, immunization,/ vaccines as per the KEPI schedule
Inpatient services
Maternal care – Antenatal and Prenatal care and deliveries (Normal delivery and caesarian section)
Reproductive health services : Family Planning
Renal Dialysis
Overseas treatment for specialized surgeries not available locally
Transfer requests are normally considered for approval by the Appointment Board, once, at the end of the year. However, the Commission can transfer a teacher at its discretion. A teacher wishing to be considered for transfer should do so by:
Filling in a transfer application form through the head of institution. Transfer forms are available at TSC offices countrywide or can be downloaded from TSC website.
Completed application forms should be sent to the TSC or its agents by the head of institution.
Transfers for primary school teachers within the county will be handled by the TSC County Director.
Transfers outside the county will be handled by the TSC headquarters. Applications for transfer for tertiary institutions are processed at the TSC headquarters.
Transfer requests submitted to the Commission will be acknowledged promptly. The decision of the Appointment Board will later be communicated to the teacher. Transfers will be granted subject to availability of vacancy and replacement.
It will now cost you more to use mobile services on the Safaricom platform. Kenya’s leading Telecommunications Company, in terms of Subscribers, Safaricom has announced that it will revise its mobile tariffs upwards, tonight. Short Message Services, SMS, will go up by 10 cents per an SMS. While, both voice and data costs will be increased by 10 cents each.
Safaricom announces that the decision has been reached after the increased mobile services taxes which were passed in the Finance Act of 2018.
“Therefore, as a result of the increased taxes passed in the Finance Act 2018, we wish to notify our customers that from midnight tonight, the 18th October 2018, our headline price for voice calls and data will increase by 30 cents and SMS by 10 cents,” said the Safaricom CEO, Bob Collymore a statement, today.
the Energy Regulatory Commission, ERC, has reviewed prices for petroleum products. These new prices will be in force for the next 30 days. Check the press statement from the ERC, below:
“In accordance with Legal Notice No.196 of 2010, the Energy (Petroleum Pricing) Regulations and the amendment thereof, @energy_ke has calculated the maximum retail pump prices of petroleum products, which will be in force from 15th October to 14″ November 2018.
Taking into account the weighted average cost of imported refined petroleum products, changes in maximum allowed petroleum prices in Nairobi are as follows: Super Petrol decreases by KShs. 1.06 while Diesel and Kerosene increase by KShs.1.60 and KShs. 0.43 per litre respectively .
The prices are inclusive of Value Added Tax (VAT) at 8% in line with the provisions of the Finance Act 2018.
The changes in this month’s prices have been as a consequence of:
1. The average landed cost of imported Super Petrol decreasing by 1.99% from US$ 743.85 per ton in August 2018 to US$ 729.04 per ton in September 2018;
2. The average landed cost of imported Diesel increasing by 2.11% from US$ 685.95 per ton to US$ 700.41 per ton and Kerosene increasing by 0.60% from US$ 717.30 per ton to US$ 721.64 per ton.”
Supportive images for the ERC’s press statement and pump prices across the country are attached, here, below:
Press Statement by ERC- 1Press Statement by ERC- 2ERC: New Pump prices- 1ERC: New Pump prices- 2
The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, has embarked on an exercise to collect data of teachers not currently receiving Special Allowances. Through an Internal Memo to all County Directors, TSC’s Acting Director in Charge of Staffing, Madam Rita W. Wahome, says: “You are hereby requested to submit data of all teachers teaching in special schools and units who are currently not receiving Special Allowances.”
Special Allowances are paid, monthly, to teachers handling physically challenged learners in special schools and units.
According to Madam Wahome, this data will ‘the commission (to) have a data base of all teachers with special allowance.’ The data to be collected and submitted by the County Directors include the respective teacher’s: County, Sub-county, school, Teacher’s name, TSC NO, Job Group, Date of Deployment to the Unit/ Special School, Officer who made the deployment and area of specialization.
The data is to be filled in a prescribed form and sent to the TSC head quarters by 7th November, 2018.
Special allowance is one of the allowances paid to the teachers, others being: Annual Leave Allowance, Commuter Allowance, House Allowance, Hardship Allowance and Responsibility Allowance.
The Confederation of Africa Football (CAF), has cancelled the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), qualifier between Ghana and Sierra Leone.
A communique from CAF informed the Ghana Football Association’s (GFA), Normalization Committee that “the CAN 2019 Qualifier match no. 65 (Ghana vs Sierra Leone) & 89 (Sierra Leone vs Ghana) on the 11th and 14th of October respectively have been cancelled.”
The letter signed by Samson Adamu, Director of Competition at CAF, further said it was “due to the fact that the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), did not meet the conditions stipulated in the letter sent by CAF on FIFA’s decision to suspend the federation.
“As a result, all officials appointed for match no 89 (Sierra Leone vs Ghana) are not to travel as their mission has been canceled, likewise, the officials who have travelled for Match no 65 (Ghana vs Sierra Leone) are requested to travel back home since the match has been cancelled.”
Ghana are at the summit of group F, that also includes Kenya and Ethiopia who play each other this evening, at Ethiopia. Kenya now have a fair chance of topping the group if they win or draw, away at Ethiopia, today.
TSC: THE ROLE OF THE PRINCIPAL IN EXIT/ WHAT THE PRINCIPAL/ HEAD TEACHER IS SUPPOSED TO DO DURING A TEACHER’S EXIT FROM THE SERVICE:
The head of institution/ Principal/ Head teacher plays an integral role during a teacher’s exit from the teaching profession/ service, The head teacher is supposed:
To report all exits promptly to avoid overpayments to the teacher.
To forward all requests/applications for exit from teaching service.
To Advise teachers on exit management.
To issue clearance certificates to teachers exiting service.
To liaise with next –of- kin to facilitate payment of death gratuities.
To report all cases of absenteeism/desertion.
NOTE:
Regulation 168 of the Code of Regulations for Teachers (2015) states that “A Head of Institution who fails to report a teacher’s exit from service shall be liable to disciplinary action and shall be surcharged to the extent of any loss occasioned to the Commission.
The Ministry of Education has given elaborate plans to have displaced students sit for their National tests. Speaking at an invite to appear before the parliamentary Committee on education, today morning, the Cabinet Secretary, Amb. Amina Mohammed, said her ministry has identified 28 alternative centres where candidates affected by inter-community clashes in Narok and Nakuru Counties will sit their national examinations.
Amina told the National Assembly Education Committee that 42 primary schools and 6 secondary schools with a total of 1,719 candidates were affected; exuding confidence that the affected candidates will sit for the tests like others countrywide.
“In Narok South sub-County, 27 primary schools with a total enrolment of 13,476 including 1,087 candidates were affected while in Narok North sub-County, 15 schools with a total enrolment of 5,791 including 434 candidates were also affected,” said the CS.
The CS was acciompanied by the Principal Secretary in her ministry, Dr. Belio Kipsang. The Hon. Julius Melly chaired Education committee had raised concern over the Cabinet Secretary’s absence and failure to honour summons, early last week.
Amina said her ministry was working closely with the CS Matiang’i led Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government to enhance security and ensure normalcy returns to the affected areas.
CS Amina said, “relative calm has returned and schools have since re-opened. I can confirm that out of 1,847 students that were reported absent, only 110 are yet to resume. We will take all measures to ensure that the examination materials are delivered to the schools as planned and that the security of learners is guaranteed,” she assured.
Yesterday, the Education CS led a stake holders’ meeting at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Studies, in Nairobi. The meeting came up with a raft of measures to curb exams cheating. Top on the list is the banning of: visitations to schools by parents, this term, and possession of mobile phones by students in school. The CS spelt out tough action that would be taken to parents whose children are found in possession of mobile phones in schools.
During today’s meeting with the Education parliamentary committee, the CS said that in Kibra, Nairobi County, a total of 15 schools with 258 students were affected by demolitions and alternative examination centres have been proposed.
The National examinations kick off at the end of this month.
Hospital charges are reimbursed to teachers who incur medical bills in respect of self, spouse and children less than 22 years at the prescribed rates. Application is made on prescribed form (TSC MED. 3) and attaching original receipts.
This is payable to teachers who incur in-patient medical bill and in the opinion of the commission requires such assistance to enable him/her overcome the financial hardships.
A teacher should apply in writing attaching a copy of hospital invoice and medical reimbursement voucher.
The amount payable is net medical bill less 25%, subject to availability of funds.
The approval for payment is done twice a year – June and December.
With less than four weeks to the start of this year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examinations, KCSE, and Kenya Certificate of Primary Education Examinations, KCPE, Plans are at an advanced stage to secure credibility of the national examinations. Speaking at Lang’ata’s examination Container, in Nairobi, during an inspection tour, the duo sounded a stern warning to students, parents and other stake holders on any attempts to compromise the credibility of the examinations. The two indicated that there are reports of fake examinations papers being circulated over the internet by con men who are out to extort money from unsuspecting parents and students.
“Our candidates, instead of revising for the syllabus to have a reasonable chance of passing, they are focusing on these fake papers. They shall focus on these papers at their own peril,” the tough speaking Prof. George Magoha said today. Prof. George A.O Magoha, a Professor of Transplant Surgery and an Honorary Consultant Surgeon and Urologist at Kenyatta National Hospital and Nairobi Hospital, is the Chairman of the Kenya National Examinations Council, with effect from March 09, 2016.
KNEC Chairman: Prof George Magoha
Speaking to journalists after inspecting one of the examinations’ containers in Nairobi, today, Dr. Richard Belio Kipsang, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education Science and Technology said that plans are underway to ensure that the National examinations shall be held under suitable conditions for all candidates; countrywide. He promised students living in insecurity prone areas, like Narok, of conducive environment as they write their papers. “There shall be no prayer days where we shall invite crowds from outside the school,” Dr. Kipsang warned.
Dr. Belio Kipsang- PS Ministry of Education
Dr. Kipsang had no kind words for schools which will try to compromise the exams. “A school or Centre that will be found out to have exposed an examination material before the due time will have that centre cease to be an exam centre and become a scene of crime,” Kipsang added.
A total of over 1.7 million candidates are set to sit this year’s national examinations.
