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AN ex-soldier from China got the surprise of his life when he found out that he was marked as a woman in official retirement papers. Tian, 62 years old from Zhengzhou in Henan province, China retired from…
SEVERAL retired government employees in Cebu have been unable to receive their monthly pension after failing to undergo revalidation, the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) said yesterday. GSIS-Cebu Branch Manager Mercedes Enriquez said 30 percent of…
PHILIPPINE Veterans Affairs Office (Pvao) administrator and Defense undersecretary Ernesto Carolina said war vets, severely diminishing in number, have long been waiting for the passage of a pension hike bill for senior veterans. “You can just imagine…
RAISING the monthly salary credit cap as proposed by the Social Security System to P30,000 by 2021, alongside a contribution rate hike, will also increase pension payments moving forward, the state-run pension fund said Sunday. “The estimated…
Starting January next year, the contribution rate of Social Security System (SSS) members will increase to over 12.5 percent as a means for the state-run pension fund to compensate for the higher disbursements to retirees. SSS president…
STILL ALIVE A daughter asked her father what his plans for his 82nd birthday were. He said he always spent his birthdays at the Social Security System (SSS) office. The daughter asked why. “To let them know…
After much deliberation, President Rodrigo Duterte signed the P1,000 increase for Social Security System (SSS) pensioners last Tuesday, but it came with a corresponding 1.5-percent contribution hike from the active members who may or may not reap…
Malacañang on Monday assured the public that President Rodrigo Duterte is finding a way to hike the pension of Social Security System (SSS) members while keeping the government-owned corporation afloat. “The President is looking for a win-win…
BEIJING — For Yu Shuiping and other Chinese veterans, the country they served has yet to show its gratitude. Fed up with paltry pensions and benefits, they’re taking to the streets, hoping to shame the government into…
There is a snowball’s chance in hell for Congress to approve a proposed P1,000 across-the-board increase for pensioners of the Social Security System (SSS) but if it’s coming from House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, then it has to…
Last Friday, the culminating activities of the feast in honor of the Sto. Niño started with a dawn procession. The Walk with Mary was attended by about 250,000 devotees and was followed by the traslacion which brought…
President Benigno Aquino III’s veto of House Bill 5842, which mandates an across-the-board increase of P2,000 for Social Security System (SSS) pensioners, can be seen both ways. But it all redounds to the national government’s seeming incapacity…
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