PRESIDENT-elect Rodrigo Duterte reiterates his stand on increasing the social security pension.
Duterte already vowed to reverse President Aquino’s decision to veto a congress-approved bill that would grant SSS pensioners additional PHP 2, 000 in monthly pension.
He emphasized that the government must treat retired government and private sector workers justly by providing enough pension funds to cover urgent necessities like medicine, whose prices have gone high, and to assure smooth and shorter processes in receiving these pensions.
Last January, Aquino vetoed the Congress-approved House Bill 5842 or “an act mandating a PHP 2, 000 across-the-board increases in the monthly pension.
Aquino defended his decision saying — the move can compromise the SSS benefit system with 31 million individuals in favor of the two million pensioners. (Eagle News)