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No to savings and loan association

Just recently, the Social Security System chief actuary publicly disclosed that the increase in contribution rate to 17 percent is a prerequisite to the...

Oplan Tokhang for SSS

After subjecting the Social Security System in recent months to mass protests and complaints for its inadequate pensions and poor service delivery, we expected...

Just and equitable compensation and pensions

“The payment of just and equitable compensation to all government personnel…that is generally comparable with those in the private sector” was a governing principle...

Quo vadis, SSS?

Yesterday, September 1, was the Social Security System’s 59th anniversary. Unlike before, this year’s anniversary came and went without the usual proud celebration and...

Those were the days

August used to be a month when the entire Social Security System would be agog preparing to celebrate its September 1 anniversary. SSS officials would...

Real change for SSS pensioners

President Rodrigo Duterte in proposing his first national budget—which he named “A Budget for Real Change”—stating in simple but clear words that:  “It is a...

PhilHealth as model in merging SSS and GSIS

It was in the summer of 1972—the year Martial Law was declared —when our Medicare program paid its first benefits almost three years since...

Right to understand our pension system

When President Rodrigo Duterte assumed the presidency last June 30, he also signed his first executive order which consolidated 12 anti-poverty agencies under his...

Biting the pension bullet

The conviction of the former bosses of the Retirement and Separation Benefits System for investing its funds in overpriced real estate properties has raised...

Trivializing recent accomplishments

The accomplishments of the Social Security System are being published regularly by its officials in its web site to impress naive readers into thinking...

Ka Blas Ople’s vision

We had to temporarily set aside, in the heat of the last presidential campaign period, the resolution of major problems that our active and...

Only a few days after

About this time last year, most of us were not able to imagine how Davao City Mayor Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte and his maverick type...

Hidden and undetermined dole

Perhaps, many of us haven’t realized yet how deeply social security institutions affect our day-to-day lives now and in the future. Consequently, we just...

Key performance indicator of our pension agencies

Six years from now, the standards that we used to measure the performance of PNoy’s administration would also be applied to President Digong’s team.  In...
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