Detained opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Monday called on Philhealth and the Social Security System to stop extorting from their members by increasing their contributions.
“The year 2021 is supposed to be the first year of our recovery. In order to do so, our economic team is racking their brains out for anything that would resuscitate our struggling economy and provide a roadmap for our fellow Filipinos towards a better future,” she said in a dispatch from Camp Crame.
“We are looking at tax breaks for entrepreneurs, loan assistance from our banks, rent and mortgage relief and many other means to keep Filipinos employed and give them more money in their pockets,” she said.
“Now comes SSS and PhilHealth which, in their attempts to increase revenue, REQUIRE their members to cough up more money and increase their contributions,” De Lima said.
“Nagkakanda-ugaga na nga ang mga Pilipino sa paghahanap-buhay at pagtitipid, sila pa talaga ang huhuthutan ng SSS at PhilHealth,” she lamented.
De Lima said implementing a simultaneous increase of member contributions in both the PhilHealth and SSS in the midst of an unprecedented loss of income brought by this pandemic and other disasters, “is utterly heartless and oppressive.”
“Increasing SSS and PhilHealth contributions not only would result in less employment due to increased cost but also to possible delinquencies of members who cannot afford the additional payments required,” she said.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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