SSS program targets vendors

THE Social Security System (SSS)  is making it easier for Mandaue City and Lapu-Lapu City vendors to remit their contributions through their AlkanSSSya program.

The program, launched last Friday  at the Mandaue Public Market in sitio Tribunal, barangay Centro, aims to encourage SSS members of the informal sector to continue remitting contributions to the SSS.

The SSS said the informal sector are those who are self-employed or with no regular jobs.

Instead of remitting to the SSS office, the vendors will only have to put their contributions in their own coin boxes, which will later be kept by the president of the vendors association, for the SSS to collect.

The SSS tied up with the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) for the program. The MCCI will shoulder the cost of the coin boxes.

coin boxes

SSS Lapu-Lapu City Branch Accounts Officer Nenita Baguiran said there are about 109 vendors who are SSS members and we will be placing about 160 coin boxes hoping to encourage others to join the program.

With the coin boxes, they can set aside a small amount every day until it reaches P312, the minimum monthly contribution. She said it will lighten the vendors monthly payment.

Assistant branch head of SSS-Lapu-Lapu, Proliferio Salidaga said that their office also covers Mandaue city.

Baguiran said that at the end of the month, they would collect the savings, in the presence of the association’s president, and remit these to the vendors’ SSS accounts if the amount reaches P312.

He said that those whose coin boxes had no contributions or are not interested in remitting their contributions will be replaced with another vendor./Reporter Jucell Marie P. Cuyos