The multi-dimensional green energy investment play of Citicore Renewable Energy Corporation (CREC) in Pangasinan province is taking off with its blueprinted 240-megawatt solar farm to be sited in Binalonan town. To jumpstart the project, the company held its groundbreaking rites this week – and...
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released over P91.28 billion for public health emergency benefits and allowances (PHEBA) for healthcare workers. According to the DBM, these funds have been disbursed to the Department of Health (DOH) for the years 2021 (P12.1 billion), 2022...
After a relentless two-year battle, health workers in Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCCs), the Philippine General Hospital (PGH), and the Department of Health (DOH)-retained health workers have triumphed in securing their long-overdue health emergency allowances (HEA) covering the...
(MANILA BULLETIN) A bill seeking to grant maternity cash benefits to working mothers in the informal sector has been filed in the House of Representatives. Under House Bill (HB) No.10070 penned by Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan, women...
The Social Security System (SSS) reported an increase in cash benefits for elderly members who could no longer work that benefited over two million Filipinos. The SSS said on Friday, Mar. 8, that the pension fund released around P157 billion in retirement benefits to 2.2 million members from...
Founded in 2021 by medical practitioners and healthcare entrepreneurs, Kindred is the first medical care provider in the Philippines that specializes in women’s health. Coming together as kindred spirits, Filipino nurse and femtech pioneer Jessica De Mesa and healthcare entrepreneur Abetina...
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee (Rep. Lee's office) AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee has urged the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to apply a 30 percent increase in all its benefits and coverage. “2024 na, ano pang hinihintay...
State-run Social Security System (SSS) handed written notices to a trucking company in Tondo, Manila for not unpaid workers’ contributions. In a statement, the pension fund said four of the business establishments were not able to pay P2.71 million worth of contributions with penalties for their...
State-run Social Security System (SSS) will resume its benefit claims for prescription sick leave, and involuntary unemployment or separation. In a memorandum, SSS said there will be a prescriptive period for submitting or filing for this benefit as accomplished by the employer, employee,...
State-run Social Security System (SSS) released revised guidelines on claiming funeral benefits for members, beneficiaries, and other claimants. In a memorandum, the funeral benefit shall range from a minimum of P20,000 to a maximum of P60,000, if the deceased member has paid at least 36 monthly...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has increased the maternity and death benefits for workers in the sugar industry under the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) fund. This, after Labor Secretary Bienvenido E. Laguesma signed DOLE Administrative Order No. 318, expanding the workers’...
Protecting the environment would require from the public a “sense of ownership” and an understanding of its economic benefits, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. said on Monday, June 26, during an event to commemorate Philippine Environment Month. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. speaks...