OVER 2,000 casual of the Batanes provincial government will have Social Security System (SSS) coverage under the KaSSSangga Collect Program.
SSS president and chief executive officer Rolando Macasaet and Batanes Gov. Marilou Cayco inked a memorandum of agreement paving the way for these workers to get social security coverage from the state pension fund.
“This only shows SSS is committed to its mandate of expanding social security protection and services to all working Filipinos up to the last-mile provinces in the Philippines like Batanes,” Macasaet said.
Under the program, these employees would be registered as SSS self-employed members, while the provincial government will serve as the SSS collecting partner.
“The timely remittance of monthly premiums will ensure that JO workers are qualified to avail of SSS benefits and loan privileges in times of emergencies,” Macasaet said.
These workers as self-employed members could avail of SSS benefits like sickness, maternity, disability, retirement, death and funeral.
“They can also avail of loan privileges, such as salary and calamity loans,” Macasaet said.
They are entitled to receive employees’ compensation benefits in case of work-connected sickness, injury or death.
