MANILA, Philippines— A bill has been filed at the House of Representatives seeking to triple the unemployment benefit laid-off workers will receive from the Social Security System (SSS).
Surigao del Sur Rep. Johnny Pimentel filed House Bill 8594 which will allow displaced workers to claim unemployment benefits equal to 50 percent of their monthly salary for a maximum of six months.
Currently, the subsidy is equal to 50 percent of their monthly salary for only a maximum of two months.
“Our bill seeks to give more meaning to social security, and to the mandate of the 1987 Constitution for the State to afford full protection to labor,” Pimentel said Sunday in a statement.
“We …
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