SSS Benefits Go Beyond the Member’s Passing

Ivan Ponce
1 min readJan 10, 2024

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Are you one of the millions of members of the Social Security System? More popularly called SSS, its member populace is consists of individuals coming from different walks of life:

  • locally-employed individuals
  • self-employed individuals
  • overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)
  • kasambahays or household helpers
  • voluntary members
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The Social Security System has been in the service of the Filipino people for decades already. Every month, the members must post a monthly contribution to keep an active and updated account.

An updated SSS account may qualify a member to the benefit offers and the SSS loans which includes the following:

  • SSS Housing Loan
  • SSS Salary Loan
  • SSS Calamity Loan

With regards to the benefit offers of the SSS, one of the offers is the SSS Death Benefit which the benefit extends beyond the passing of the member. It will provide his/her beneficiaries with either the SSS Death Pension or the Lump Sum.

Here are the other benefit offers of the Social Security System:

  • SSS Unemployment Benefit
  • SSS Disability Benefit
  • SSS Funeral Benefit
  • SSS Sickness Benefit
  • SSS Death Benefit

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