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
July 2025
Nutrition Month
“Give us much more than P50 increase
for proper nutrition!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations
against serious violations of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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July
3 July – International Day of Cooperatives
3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
5 July – World Youth Skills Day
7 July – Global Forgiveness Day
11 July – World Population Day
17 July – World Day for International Justice
28 July – World Nature Conservation Day
30 July – World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Monthly Observances:
Schools Safety Month
Nutrition Month
National Disaster Consciousness Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 2: Cultural Communities Week
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise
Development Week
Week 3: National Science and
Technology Week
National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation Week
July 1-7:
National Culture Consciousness Week
July 13-19:
Philippines Business Week
Week ending last Saturday of July:
Arbor Week
Daily Observances:
First Saturday of July:
International Cooperative Day
in the Philippines
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