Monday, May 4, 2026
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Tag: Horace Templo

Contribution and pension adjustment formulas

The Social Security Act defines the amount of pension as the sum of P300 and the product of 2 percent of a member’s average...

Less food on our tables

With our pensions eroded further by the recent devaluation of the peso by at least 10 percent relative to the American dollar, we pensioners...

Creating more false pension hopes

The bill that Makati City Rep. Luis Campos Jr. recently submitted to the House of Representatives, increasing to P2,000 the P500 monthly social pension...

A new pension investment era

Aside from lending back as loans to its members their contributions, the Social Security System is also unique for being one of the few...

End-of-year report

Once more it’s December, the month of Christmas and New Year’s Eve and the most appropriate time to review our annual performance and highlight...

Freedom to choose

Four months and 25 days or a total of 148 days have passed since President Digong Duterte reluctantly occupied Malacañang Palace, and still we...

The need to travel abroad

Sadly, many desperate Filipinos now have to travel abroad just to work as domestic helpers or laborers in countries more affluent than the Philippines.  The...

Countdowns

After this year’s almost uneventful Undas, we immediately started our countdown to Christmas 2016, which is turning out to be much more exciting compared...

Another pension deadlock

A good proportion of our millennials now spend their days before, during and after Undas traveling as local tourists to our natural, heritage, and...

Pensions made in USA and Japan

It’s evident that the pension systems of our uniformed personnel and civil servants are legacies to us of our American colonizers from their almost...

Change is coming–eventually

We hoped—as we were constantly promised during the campaign period—that real change would come immediately if then-Mayor Digong Duterte would be elected president. Thus, we...

Education, excellence and enjoyment

Treasuring our long-standing friendship with Asia’s first grandmaster Eugene Torre, our small group of chess aficionados whose ages now exceed the number of squares...

Senator Miriam’s unfinished pension work

“Miriam, sleep in peace but pray for us” were the simple loving words that retired Bishop Teodoro Bacani Jr. used in sending off former...

Discarding our ‘Nato’ policy

Architect Jun Palafox was exaggerating in jest when he disclosed that he had “1,000 recommendations” on how to ease our traffic, but was probably...
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