State-run Social Security System (SSS) will soon start accepting online maternity benefit applications as part of the pension fund’s digitalization initiatives. Screen Shot 2021-05-25 at 1.42.15 PM Aurora C. Ignacio, SSS president and chief executive officer said online filing of Maternity...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Thursday, May 27, advised the public to exercise precaution when registering for the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) due to several fraudulent sites and pages posing as representatives of the PhilSys. PSA has compiled a list of fake sites and...
The Department of Finance (DOF) said the exchange of information between the Department of Energy (DOE) and the government’s two main tax agencies will boost the implementation of the first-ever nationwide fuel marking program. Screen Shot 2021-05-28 at 10.31.20 AM Finance Secretary Carlos G....
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) prison pastoral care ministry has cited the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology’s (BJMP) initiative to connect persons deprived of liberty (PDL) to their loved ones through the electronic dalaw system. CBCP Gerry Bernabe, national...
President Duterte has signed the law giving him the power to defer the increases in contributions of the Social Security System (SSS) for the duration of the State of Calamity. President Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) Republic Act (RA) No. 11548 amended section 4(a)(9) of RA 11199 or the Social...
And so it began. The Philippine National Police (PNP) launched on Thursday, May 27, what it vowed to be a corruption-free and influence-peddling-free recruitment of the more than 17,000 rookie cops for this year alone. Dubbed as Comprehensive Online Recruitment Encrypting System (CORES), the...
The Philippine government, through the National Water Resources Board (NWRB), has secured a deal with the government of South Korea for the establishment of the Integrated Water Resources Management Information System (IWRMIS) for the Pampanga River Basin. A statement showed that NWRB and the Korea...
Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation’s (Keppel T&T) wholly-owned subsidiary, Keppel Midgard Holdings Pte. Ltd. (KMH), and Converge ICT Solutions Inc. have virtually signed definitive agreements for the latter's P5 billion investment in the Bifrost Cable System linking Singapore to...
The Social Security System (SSS) has released P3.07 billion worth of funeral benefits to over 135,000 beneficiaries in 2020. (Taylor Weidman / Bloomberg / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Over the years, the state-run insurance program recorded P3.58 billion to 163,589 members in 2016; P3.79 billion...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Tuesday joined the international community in mourning the death of Chinese scientist Yuan Longping who is also known worldwide as the “Father of Hybrid Rice”. “The Asian world shares China’s grief,” Locsin said in a tweet, three days after...
State-run Social Security System (SSS) said its funeral benefit disbursements dropped last year due to the prolonged nationwide implementation of community quarantine measures. In a statement, Aurora C. Ignacio, SSS president and chief executive officer said the pension fund disbursed P3.07 billion...
Over 10 million Filipinos have completed the Step 2 registration or the collection of biometric information for the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys), said the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). PSA said a total of 10,092,022 registrants have finished this step as of May 21. Step 2...
