Negros Occidental has high employer contribution compliance rate: SSS

BACOLOD CITY — As a result of aggressive measures in pursuing evaders, the Social Security System (SSS) has monitored high compliance rate in terms of employer contribution in Negros Occidental.

This was noted by Helen Solito, SSS Visayas Operations Group senior vice president, during the opening program of the five-day 60th Anniversary Exhibit of the agency at SM City Bacolod on Friday.

Solito, however, called on employers to regularly remit the contributions of their workers as there are still delinquencies in the contribution of payments in the Visayas.

“Let us be partners in providing protection to the members,” Solito urged employers.

She said the SSS is intensifying efforts to increase collections through improved compliance rate among the employers. Account officers check the records of companies to determine underpayments, she added.

In the Visayas, the SSS has 26 branches, including nine in Negros Island under Visayas West 1.

These are located in the cities of Bacolod, Bago, Kabankalan, Sagay, Victorias and San Carlos in Negros Occidental; and the cities of Bais and Dumaguete in Negros Oriental.

Data from 2016 showed there are at least 1.8 million SSS members in Negros Occidental, mostly covered by SSS Bacolod Branch with registrants from the cities of Bacolod, Talisay and Silay.

The agency’s 60th anniversary celebration is themed “SSS: Anim na Dekadang Sinisiguro ang Kinabukasan ng bawat Miyembro.”(PNA)

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