Bacolod Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez and Social Security Service president and chief executive officer Rolando Ledesma Macasaet signed a Memorandum of Agreement to register the city’s job order and contract of service workers as self-employed members of the SSS.
The MOA, which was signed Monday night, August 7, makes the Bacolod City government part of the KaSSSangga Collect Program.
Under the program the SSS will register the JO and COS workers who voluntarily wish to join as self-employed members of the SSS, while the city government will be responsible for the regular remittances of the SSS contributions through an automatic salary deduction scheme.
The monthly salary deduction for those who join the program will be P570, Lilani Benedian, SSS Visayas West I Division vice president, said.
She said with the required number of posted contributions, self employed professionals can avail of social security benefits such as sickness, maternity, disability, retirement, death and funeral, and its various loan programs.
On top of the SS benefits self-employed members are also eligible to receive Employees’ Compensation in case of work-related sickness, injury or death.
Macasaet said the SSS is committed to serve and provide extra care to its members.
Meanwhile, the SSS Run After Contribution Evaders (RACE) Campaign West Visayas 1st Division, which covers Negros and Siquijor, visited 265 employers and 225 complied as of July 2023, Benedian said.
The total delinquency of the establishments visited is P86,760,191.38 and total collection was P24,782,260.99 benefiting 2,404 employees, she added.
They have filed 57 cases against violators that are pending in court, the prosecutor’s office and Social Security Commission, Benedian said.
Macasaet said he and other top SSS officials were in Bacolod City for a planning session and stakeholders roadshow at the SMX Convention Center in Bacolod City on Tuesday.*