MANILA, Philippines—With so many Filipinos losing their jobs because of the slowing global economy, the government should reconsider using the money of the state-run pension funds for the P330-billion economic stimulus package.
Gabriela party-list Rep. Liza Maza said the funds of the Social Security System (SSS) and the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) as well as that of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (Owwa) would be put to better use providing loans and assistance to the laid-off workers and those in danger of losing their jobs.
Maza said there was no guarantee the infrastructure projects the government is planning to pump-prime the economy would provide lucrative returns.
She said the economic stimulus package did not directly address the needs of retrenched workers.
“Workers’ funds are not for the government to use, meddle with or subject to undue financial risks by investing them in vague concepts such as an economic stimulus fund that has no assurance of pumping up the economy for the benefit of our poor workers,” she said.
Maza is the representative who demanded that SSS president Romulo Neri be summoned to Congress to explain why he committed P12.5 billion of SSS money to the P330-billion economic stimulus package. –Leila B. Salaverria, Philippine Daily Inquirer
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October –
Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
Daily Observances:
First Monday (Oct 4): Universal Children’s Day i
n the Philippines
Oct 5: National Teachers’ Day
Oct 10: Local Government Day
Third Thursday (Oct 14): Conflict Resolution Day
Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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