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SSS reserve fund hits record P1 trillion as net income jumps 58%

The Social Security System (SSS) reserve fund surpassed P1 trillion in 2025, a historic milestone led by record income and assets resulting from fiscal...

Pensions: A critical lifeline to aging well

For many Filipino retirees, pensions are a critical lifeline to aging well. And if pensions are the only source of income for them, the monthly...

AFP assures over 140k pensioners of timely, lawful release of benefits

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has reaffirmed its commitment to the timely, lawful, and transparent administration of pension benefits. AFP spokesperson Col. Francel...

Long-awaited pension payments for retirees

KABUL – After a four-year suspension, the Taliban government has announced it would resume pension payments for Afghanistan’s nearly 150,000 retired military and civil...

SSS to roll out pension reform, raise monthly retirement benefits by a third up to P29,465

The Social Security System (SSS) on Thursday announced a pension reform program that will raise maximum monthly retirement benefits by a third to P29,465...

Romualdez eyes enhancing benefits, lifetime pensions for Olympic medalists

House Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez on Monday said lawmakers will study the possibility of enhancing and increasing government benefits to medalists in the...

Lawmaker opposes granting of retirement benefits to 18 alleged ranking ‘narco’ cops

ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro on Sunday strongly opposed the grant of retirement benefits and pensions to the 18 high-ranking police officers who...

Pork vs. Pensions

Slowly, we have come to endure the system and the leaders, seemingly inured to how the corruption and inefficiency has pauperized the economy, save...

New pensions strike in France

French unions on Thursday called workers out on a new strike against a bitterly opposed pension reform being debated in parliament, but turnout was...

GSIS disbursed P151-b loans in 2021

State pension fund Government Service Insurance System disbursed P151 billion in loans to more than one million members and pensioners in 2021, up by...

SSS: 2.5m members obtain P62-b pension

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Promises to keep

WAS Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno being pragmatic or cynical when he urged the public last week to differentiate between President Rodrigo Duterte and candidate...

‘An honest explanation’

Because we have become so used to the practice, we think nothing of politicians who promise good things to those they are trying to...

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...
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