SSS E-MOBILE SERVICES. Members avail of various services offered by the Social Security System during the E-Mobile Services forum at the Quezon Park in Dumaguete City on Thursday (June 27, 2019). The activity aims to give convenience to people availing of various SSS services and help them avoid long queues on a regular day at the city's SSS office. (Photo by Judy Flores Partlow)
DUMAGUETE CITY – A ranking official of the Social Security System (SSS) has urged the people here to be updated on their SSS membership, saying that social security protection is “an international human right.”
Lawyer Renato Jacinto S. Cuisia, acting vice president of the Operations Legal Divisions I and II of the SSS central office, told SSS members during the agency’s E-mobile and Employers’ Forum at the Quezon Park here on Thursday that “we are continuously looking into our legal processes to address the concerns of our workers).”
The SSS is mandated to ensure that Filipino workers are provided their right to social security protection and that employers are obligated to pay the necessary contributions, he said.
“We are closely monitoring the compliance of employers,” he reassured the workers.
He also urged them to make sure that they are receiving SSS coverage from the companies or establishments where they are employed.
During the forum, the SSS-Dumaguete offered services including the registration and issuance of SSS numbers, UMID/ID Capture, E4/Amendment of Member’s Record, Web Registration, Records Verification, Employer’s Forum, and Acceptance of Payments.
Dr. Lilani Benedian, SSS Visayas West 1 Division vice president, said through the E-Mobile Services, “we want to make our members feel that we are the ones reaching out to them.”
This is also an opportunity for those who do not have the time to visit the SSS office, and wait in long queues, she said.
Cuisia’s team of lawyers and officials from the SSS national, regional, and local offices had served Show Cause Orders to 11 non-compliant employers here who have allegedly failed to pay the necessary contributions and/or have under-reported the number of people in their work force.
The SSS executive disclosed that currently there are about 9,000 pending cases for SSS violations across the country although he admitted the slow movement sometimes of cases in the judiciary level.
Violation of the SSS law is a criminal offense so employers must comply with the law otherwise they will face charges in court, Cuisia said. (PNA)
