Social Security

ADMINISTRATION party’s standard-bearer, Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro, has said that overhauling the health-care system of the country could help stop the migration of medical professionals to other countries.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) recently urged the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to purge its list of accredited suppliers under the government’s Electronic Procurement System (EPS), amid reports it is full of prohibited sellers of goods and services to the public sector.

CEBU, Philippines – The Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-ibig Fund) Mandaue Branch has noted a decrease of around 6,000 in membership this year because of the massive retrenchment among companies in Cebu, particularly in the Mactan Export Processing Zone at the height of the global financial crisis.

CEBU, Philippines – Starting January next year, all employees, whether permanent, temporary or provisional, all self-employed persons, regardless of trade, business or occupation with an income or salary of at least P1,000 a month will be mandated to apply as members of the Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-ibig Fund).

State pension fund Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) said it is working closely with the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to address members’ issues that were brought to the attention of the CSC and subsequently communicated with the pension fund for appropriate action.

Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund) announced that it would widen its coverage and increase the contribution rate of all members to improve its services.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) has issued a circular suspending the accreditation of erring hospitals and clinics facing administrative charges for defrauding the government agency.

Dear PAO, I am an employee of a private company for three years now. I would like to know if I am still entitled to a full 13th-month pay even if I will be on maternity leave for two months. Our human resource department said my benefit would be pro-rated. It is my understanding that…

HOME Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund) warned employers that have yet to register with it, or have failed to collect contributions from their employees or remit the same to the agency, to comply with the law by the end of this month.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Budget and Management on Thursday said all national government workers will get an additional P7,000 as Christmas bonus starting next week.  

MANILA, Philippines—Some 340,000 retirees who are members of the Social Security System can now avail themselves of their 13th-month bonuses as the agency has released P8.7 billion which also covers pensions for December. SSS spokesman Joel Palacios said in a statement the funds were released in mid-November to partner banks, including Philippine National Bank, Philippine…

FORMER senator Ralph Recto asked Malacañang on Thursday to increase the Christmas bonus of more than a million national government employees and release the additional benefit before the end of the year.

MANILA, Philippines – Reporters covering the high-risk election campaign should not just be provided with firearms but also with decent insurance coverage to protect them and their families should a tragedy like the Maguindanao massacre befall them, an opposition lawmaker said.

MANILA, Philippines – The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) said it is willing to face a Senate inquiry regarding its pension disbursement schedule.

1. There are close to 3 million unemployed in the Philippines in any given time.  Co-existing with one million vacancies waiting to be filled. One third of unemployment could be remediated by proper employment facilitation, or job matching if you prefer, and by skills development or upgrading.

Social Security System (SSS) President and Chief Executive Officer Romulo Neri recently said that the SSS would like to ask Congress to find ways to increase the contribution of members, in order to expand services and secure the financial stability of the fund.

MANILA, Philippines – At the height of the global financial crisis last year, the government had distributed 32.6 million kilograms of rice worth P652 million to around half a million families through President Arroyo’s Food for School Program (FSP), the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – Armed with P45 billion in investible funds, the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), the state-owned pension fund, has embarked on a buying spree of select blue chips the past several weeks after unloading the bulk of its investments last year and in 2007.

MANILA, Nov. 4 (PNA) — The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has increased its benefits for normal spontaneous deliveries done in all accredited hospitals and lying-in clinics in the country effective this month.

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) announced yesterday that effective today the benefit package for normal childbirth or “spontaneous delivery” done in accredited hospitals and maternity clinics will be increased from P4,500 to P6,500.

MANILA, Philippines – The country’s largest labor group yesterday sought public disclosure of a list of more than 160,000 delinquent employers who failed to remit government-mandated monthly contributions to the Social Security System (SSS).

Dear PAO, I have heard from a friend that employees who resign after September are entitled to receive their 13th month pay—each of them to receive an equivalent to 1/12 of an employee’s salary. I have been trying to locate a document stating this rule but I have not found one. Please help me. Thank…

I was surprised the other day to find in my e-mail a press release from the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) saying that effective March 2010, survivorship pensions extended to spouses of deceased members will be stopped if they are gainfully employed in government or the private sector.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) expects to implement the Personal Equity and Retirement Account (PERA) Law next year after various government agencies signed its implementing rules and regulations yesterday.

With many dying from leptospirosis in flood-hit areas in Metro Manila and nearby provinces, the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) on Monday announced that it would pay for confinements arising from the animal feces-borne disease.

MANILA, Philippines – The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) will start suspending the monthly benefits of the spouses of its deceased pensioners who are found to be gainfully employed or have other sources of income.

Beginning March next year, the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) said it will strictly conform to provisions of the law that defines the eligibility for survivorship pension – a benefit extended to qualified dependents of deceased GSIS pensioners or members.

The state-run Social Security System (SSS) said in a statement Friday that it has extended its office hours through the weekend to allow members affected by tropical storm Ondoy and Typhoon Pepeng to claim their salary loan checks at the SSS main office in Quezon City. Joel Palacios, spokesman for SSS, said that the main…

MANILA, Philippines – Government employees affected by storm “Ondoy” have already been granted P2 billion worth of emergency loans by the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS).

The state-run Social Security System (SSS) relaxed loan-application procedures to help its members who were affected by recent storms to apply for emergency credit, the pension fund announced in a statement Monday.