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A total of P18.8 billion was given to some 3.7 million pensioners in the form of their 13th month pension, the Social Security System (SSS) announced on Tuesday.

I am 57 years old and currently working as a university staff for almost 35 years. When I was approaching my 35th year of service with the university, the Human Resource (HR) informed me that I was ...

MANULIFE Philippines and the Social Security System (SSS) have expanded their Group Credit Life (GCL) insurance coverage to include pensioners participating in the SSS Pension Loan Program, providing ...

Some states don't have any income tax, meaning retirement income is also exempt. Seven states offer exemptions for various forms of retirement income. Forty-one states, plus Washington, D.C., don't ...

For surviving pensioners, the SSS now offers a loan equivalent to half of their monthly pension for up to one year, payable in 12 months at 10% interest on a diminishing balance, says SSS Assistant ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos affected by Typhoon “Tino” may now borrow up to P20,000 under the Social Security System’s (SSS) Calamity Loan Program starting Thursday, November 6. In a statement, ...

A recent report once again confirmed how dismal the state of our country’s pension system is. According to the 2025 edition of Mercer CFA Institute’s Global Pension Index, the Philippines’ pension ...

The coalition’s formation follows a series of Statehouse moves that unions see as threats to public retirement systems. Those include a budget amendment that reshaped the State Teachers Retirement ...

Scott Kupor, the new director of the Office of Personnel Management, publishes weekly updates on OPM and the federal workforce in his blog, Secrets of OPM. In September, Kupor reported that he went ...

The Social Security System over the weekend launched a micro-lending program in partnership with Union Bank of the Philippines that aims to provide SSS members, "especially those vulnerable to ...