Guide on Who Are Qualified under the SSS Unemployment Benefit Offer for Members
Here are the qualifications under the SSS Unemployment Benefit offer of the Social Security System for its members.
Have you heard about the SSS Unemployment Benefit offer of the Social Security System? The state-run social insurance institution designed the said benefit offer so that members have something to turn to in times of involuntary separation from work.
Most of the members of the Social Security System are locally-employed individuals in the private sector. SSS members who involuntarily lost their job usually due to any of the following may turn to the benefit offer:
- retrenchment or downsizing
- closure or cessation of operation
- installment of labor-saving devices
- redundancy
The Social Security System has set a few qualifications under the SSS Unemployment Benefit. To be eligible to apply for the benefit offer, the member must meet the following qualifications:
- not over 60 years old at the time of filing the SSS Unemployment Benefit claim
- not over 50 years old if underground or surface worker
- not over 55 years old if a racehorse jockey
- has paid at least 36 monthly contributions, 12 months of which should be in the 18th-month period immediately preceeding the month of involuntary separation from employment
The SSS Unemployment Benefit is not only open for locally-employed individuals but as well as kasambahays and both sea-based and land-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who got involuntarily separated from their work.
However, SSS members must not that not all form job loss may qualify under the SSS Unemployment Benefit. There are cases or grounds that can disqualify a member from the eligibility to file for a benefit claim.
Before filing for an SSS Unemployment Benefit claim, it is important to make sure that your ground of separation from work qualifies to the offer. It is one way to save money, time, and energy in the processing of claim.