Your Guide to your SSS Inquiries
The Philippine Social Security System has two types of SSS Program Coverage:
For employers and employees, payment of SSS contributions is done through the company/employer that they’re affiliated with and not through the individual member.
Paying the maximum SSS contribution is conclusively the best way for anyone to experience the topmost of benefits that the Philippine Social Security System has to offer including higher SSS pension.
But if you’re only after the pension benefit that you will get from SSS upon your retirement, there might be a wiser alternative in order to maximize your SSS contribution.
The Social Security System of the Philippines holds information seminars for SSS members and employers who want to know more about SSS programs and policies.
This September, there are three seminars that are available and they’re posted in the SSS website.
The Social Security System of the Philippines (SSS) will be accepting applicants for the SSS Loan Restructuring Program (LRP) on all Saturdays in September 2016:
This will be really helpful especially to those who work from Mondays to Fridays and who cannot go on leave just to apply for SSS Loan Restructuring Program.
Nowadays, health cards provided by employers or prepaid funded by the card holder have limited access to hospitals, medicines, laboratory tests, and medical consultations.
To supplement the SSS pension fund, the government agency launched last September 2014 the SSS Personal Equity and Savings Option fund or the SSS PESO fund.
A bright light at the end of a tunnel, this is how I describe my emotions when I heard the news on the possibility of SSS pension increase this year.
See what happens when a president’s governing direction is geared towards the welfare of the less fortunate.
The Social Security System of the Philippines or has warned the public on scams regarding the application for the Unified Multi-Purpose Identification or UMID card.
A text scam has been reported to SSS by concerned citizens, wherein the unknown senders offer assistance to expedite or speed up the processing of their UMID card application in exchange for a fee.
We’re all aware that our country has encountered a lot of calamities and disasters in the past couple of years.
It affected a lot of families and our economy as a whole.
Because of this, many SSS members were not able to pay off their loans with SSS and this is one of the reasons why SSS came up with the Loan Restructuring Program.
Good news has come to those who have unpaid loans from SSS!
The government institution has developed a program for member-borrowers that will enable them to pay off their previous loans in a way that won’t be too heavy on their monthly pay.
It’s still not as good as its counterparts in “first world” countries, but a membership to the Philippines’ Social Security System is still a handy thing to have.
Aside from providing a much-needed safety net in case of emergency, SSS — through its loans — also provides financial assistance for a variety of needs. If you think it’s time to move out of your parents’ house and into your own abode, for example, the SSS Housing Loan is your best bet.
