The Social Security System said it will impose additional modes of collection starting April through warrants of distraint, levy and garnishment against 60,000 delinquent employers nationwide.
SSS said this would cause the seizure and acquisition of personal and real properties and garnishment of bank accounts equivalent to the amount of unpaid contributions including interest and penalty.
The WDLG is provided for under Section 22 of Republic Act 8282 otherwise known as Social Security Act of 1997. These modes of collection are similar to the collection system of the Bureau of Internal Revenue against delinquent taxpayers.
SSS president and chief executive Emmanuel Dooc said the new policy would ensure that employers were unable to dispose their properties to evade their obligations in paying employees’ SSS monthly contributions.
“This is a warning against delinquent employers who continue to ignore their responsibility with the SSS. With this new policy, SSS can now seize their personal and real properties as well as credits and other properties in the hand of the third party as payments to the delinquency owed by them,” said Dooc.