The Social Security System on Friday said it has settled a total of 7,158 online funeral claim applications from January to June amounting to P166.31 million, higher by 313.7 percent from the second semester of 2020.
SSS president and chief executive officer Aurora Ignacio said more members are now comfortable using its various online service facilities, “which is evident in the tremendous increase received and processed for settlement.”
“Now that the My.SSS Portal is very accessible for members and claimants to virtually transact with SSS and conveniently receive their cash benefits through their disbursement accounts; we are highly receiving positive feedbacks from stakeholders that our services have greatly improved through the years. Long queues in branches have been reduced while the processing time for benefit settlements has also been shortened,” she said.
She said in compliance with Republic Act No. 11032 or the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Services Delivery Act of 2018, the SSS implemented the mandatory online filing of funeral claims through the My.SSS Portal, along with other services and programs, last July 2020 to provide claimants with an easier, simpler and faster means of filing funeral benefit claim applications through its brand campaign, ExpreSSS.
Funeral benefits, which range from P20,000 to P40,000, is granted to whoever defrayed the cost of funeral expenses of the deceased SSS member, permanent total disability pensioner, or retirement pensioner.
To submit applications, the claimant must have a registered account in the My.SSS Portal in the SSS Website and enrolled disbursement account under the Disbursement Account Enrollment Module located in the E-services Menu of the same portal. Member-claimants with no My.SSS account may now proceed with the registration link http://member.sss.gov.ph/members.
Under Circular No. 2021-007 issued by the SSS last July, having an issued SSS Unified Multi-Purpose ID (UMID) or SSS digitized ID or application for UMID card is no longer a pre-requisite for online filing of the funeral claim.