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 monthly...

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

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 of...

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

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 our...

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

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...

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 to...

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

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 half-century...