SSS issues revised guidelines in the installment payment scheme for employers
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by Maritess B. Beñas
BANGUED, Abra-The Social Security System (SSS) has recently issued a circular regarding the revised installment payment scheme for employers on delinquent payment of contributions and loan amortizations.
Abra SSS branch manager Benedicta Garcia, in an interview, explained that Circular No. 2011-002 series of 2011 pertains to the guidelines in the installment payment scheme for employers covering all employers
including household employers who are delinquent or has not remitted all contributions and salary/calamity loan amortizations for at least six months including penalties due and payable to the SSS.
Garcia said an employer shall be given 30 days upon receipt of the final demand letter to submit a proposal to settle its liabilities. Otherwise, the SSS shall file a case of non-remittance of SSS contribution and loan amortization against the employer.
For employers with pending collection cases, the SSS may still accept the proposal and the employer may move for the provisional dismissal of the case without objection from the SSS. However, in the event that the employer again fails to remit its full delinquency or defaults up to two monthly payments and/or non-payment of current contribution/salary/calamity loan amortizations, and/or non-compliance of any of the terms and conditions of the installment payment proposal, SSS may re-file the case against the employer.
The installment proposal shall be received and approved by the branch head subject to the following conditions: 1) the contribution delinquency shall be subject to the three percent penalty per month for late payment, the salary/calamity loan delinquency to the one percent penalty per month for late payment until full payment in accordance with the approved payment plan.
Second, the total delinquency shall be in accordance with the schedule of monthly installment such as: P2,000, payable in 24 months; for the total amount of delinquency of over P2,000 but not over P5,000, the maximum number of monthly installment is 36 months; and for those with total delinquency of over P5,000, the maximum number of monthly installments shall be 48 months.
Upon submission of the installment proposal, the employers shall be required to pay at least five percent of the total delinquency as down payment, she explained.
The approval of the installment proposal does not excuse the employer from remitting his current contributions and salary/calamity loan amortizations every month as they fall due.
With the availment of this scheme, the employers may restore their privilege of availing the short-term loans from the SSS. *(JDP/MTBB-PIA CAR, Abra)
BANGUED, Abra-The Social Security System (SSS) has recently issued a circular regarding the revised installment payment scheme for employers on delinquent payment of contributions and loan amortizations.
Abra SSS branch manager Benedicta Garcia, in an interview, explained that Circular No. 2011-002 series of 2011 pertains to the guidelines in the installment payment scheme for employers covering all employers
including household employers who are delinquent or has not remitted all contributions and salary/calamity loan amortizations for at least six months including penalties due and payable to the SSS.
Garcia said an employer shall be given 30 days upon receipt of the final demand letter to submit a proposal to settle its liabilities. Otherwise, the SSS shall file a case of non-remittance of SSS contribution and loan amortization against the employer.
For employers with pending collection cases, the SSS may still accept the proposal and the employer may move for the provisional dismissal of the case without objection from the SSS. However, in the event that the employer again fails to remit its full delinquency or defaults up to two monthly payments and/or non-payment of current contribution/salary/calamity loan amortizations, and/or non-compliance of any of the terms and conditions of the installment payment proposal, SSS may re-file the case against the employer.
The installment proposal shall be received and approved by the branch head subject to the following conditions: 1) the contribution delinquency shall be subject to the three percent penalty per month for late payment, the salary/calamity loan delinquency to the one percent penalty per month for late payment until full payment in accordance with the approved payment plan.
Second, the total delinquency shall be in accordance with the schedule of monthly installment such as: P2,000, payable in 24 months; for the total amount of delinquency of over P2,000 but not over P5,000, the maximum number of monthly installment is 36 months; and for those with total delinquency of over P5,000, the maximum number of monthly installments shall be 48 months.
Upon submission of the installment proposal, the employers shall be required to pay at least five percent of the total delinquency as down payment, she explained.
The approval of the installment proposal does not excuse the employer from remitting his current contributions and salary/calamity loan amortizations every month as they fall due.
With the availment of this scheme, the employers may restore their privilege of availing the short-term loans from the SSS. *(JDP/MTBB-PIA CAR, Abra)
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Abra
PAG-ASA sets up automatic weather station in Ifugao
by Mhars B.Lihgawon
LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 24 (PIA) - - People in this municipality can now be better prepared in times of calamities with the installation of an early warning device here.
An Automatic Weather Station (AWS) set up by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Service Administration (PAGASA) was formally launched May 20 to cater to the needs of the community especially farmers.
The establishment of the PAG-ASA AWS at the Ifugao State University (IFSU) Lagawe campus is a project under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) funded by the Spanish government in coordination with the university administration.
According to Dr. Vicente Malano, PAG-ASA’s acting deputy administrator for Operations and Services, the AWS is a part of their goal to provide timely and accurate forecast warning to the people.
“The MDG project has set up a series of AWS in four project sites namely Lagawe, Albay, Sorsogon, and Butuan to provide a platform for real-time data communication to the PAG-ASA forecast centers.
Malano said that real-time data transmission of precipitation and other weather parameters are required in order to produce timely and accurate flood warning and advisories.
He also disclosed that the installation of AWS in the project sites are now part of PAG-ASA’s existing network of around 40 AWS all over the country.
With the automatic weather stations, Malano hopes that the capacity of the different local government units (LGUs) in disaster procedures would be enhanced since data gathered can be accord in real-time via internet.
Meanwhile, Dr. Camilo Pimentel, IFSU vice-president for administration and finance, thanked the government particularly PAG-ASA for selecting their university as one of the sites of the AWS.
“We are very fortunate to have this very important gadget that would help not only IFSU but also the community especially the farmers,” Pimentel said. *(JDP/MBL-PIA CAR,Ifugao)
LAGAWE, Ifugao, May 24 (PIA) - - People in this municipality can now be better prepared in times of calamities with the installation of an early warning device here.
An Automatic Weather Station (AWS) set up by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Service Administration (PAGASA) was formally launched May 20 to cater to the needs of the community especially farmers.
The establishment of the PAG-ASA AWS at the Ifugao State University (IFSU) Lagawe campus is a project under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) funded by the Spanish government in coordination with the university administration.
According to Dr. Vicente Malano, PAG-ASA’s acting deputy administrator for Operations and Services, the AWS is a part of their goal to provide timely and accurate forecast warning to the people.
“The MDG project has set up a series of AWS in four project sites namely Lagawe, Albay, Sorsogon, and Butuan to provide a platform for real-time data communication to the PAG-ASA forecast centers.
Malano said that real-time data transmission of precipitation and other weather parameters are required in order to produce timely and accurate flood warning and advisories.
He also disclosed that the installation of AWS in the project sites are now part of PAG-ASA’s existing network of around 40 AWS all over the country.
With the automatic weather stations, Malano hopes that the capacity of the different local government units (LGUs) in disaster procedures would be enhanced since data gathered can be accord in real-time via internet.
Meanwhile, Dr. Camilo Pimentel, IFSU vice-president for administration and finance, thanked the government particularly PAG-ASA for selecting their university as one of the sites of the AWS.
“We are very fortunate to have this very important gadget that would help not only IFSU but also the community especially the farmers,” Pimentel said. *(JDP/MBL-PIA CAR,Ifugao)
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Ifugao
'Mercury kills people'-Researchers
by Gigi Dumallig
TABUK CITY, Kalinga - “Mercury used in mines should stop now.” This is the call of two nongovernment organizations as they seek help from the local media in their advocacy to reduce the use of said toxic chemical in mines in the province.
During the media briefing entitled, "Reducing Mercury Pollution in Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining in Balbalan, Kalinga" last May 20 here, researchers from the Basel Action Network (BAN) Toxics, Dialogos, and the Department of Public Health University of Copenhagen, Denmark said their attention was called after a press release was posted in a regional paper indicating the presence of mercury in three major river systems of the province.
Dr. Rasmus Køster-Rasmussen MD, research assistant at the Department of Public Health University of Copenhagen, Denmark said that the mere presence of mercury in the water system regardless of its concentration is enough to call the attention of the public.
The miners who are the ones directly in contact with the chemical, he said, should be more concerned ”to take action and stop the mercury use.”
Mercury poisoning in human, he said, is a matter that should be taken seriously since it could cause irreversible brain damage.
The neurological effect of mercury exposure could be manifested with tremor, memory loss, anxiety, inability to sleep, aggressive personality changes, deafness, visual, and sensory disturbances.
Rasmussen said that mercury could enter the human body in three ways:
First is through inhalation of the metal fumes during the process of malgamation and when the chemical vaporizes when exposed in room temperature.
Second is by eating or drinking the organic form of mercury which could be found in fishes (that ate contaminated micro-organisms in water), contaminated drinking water or from crops irrigated with contaminated water.
The human being the top in the food chain, according to Rasmussen will get the highest concentration of mercury for eating contaminated food from the lower level of the food chain.
Thirdly, mercury could also be acquired by birth because mothers exposed to mercury will transfer the toxic chemical to their unborn child eventually affecting the intellectual capability of their growing children.
Said chemical is acquired but will not be flushed out from the body. Mothers, on the other hand, upon transferring to their children the chemical, could lessen the concentration in their body.
Offering a solution, the researcher said that miners could instead use borax as a replacement of the hazardous mercury in purifying the gold in their mining activities.
Accompanying Dr. Rasmus Køster-Rasmussen are Dr. Marie Brasholt of Dialogos with Emy Perez and Leoncio Na-oy of BAN toxics. *(JDP/GGD-PIA CAR, Kalinga)
TABUK CITY, Kalinga - “Mercury used in mines should stop now.” This is the call of two nongovernment organizations as they seek help from the local media in their advocacy to reduce the use of said toxic chemical in mines in the province.
During the media briefing entitled, "Reducing Mercury Pollution in Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining in Balbalan, Kalinga" last May 20 here, researchers from the Basel Action Network (BAN) Toxics, Dialogos, and the Department of Public Health University of Copenhagen, Denmark said their attention was called after a press release was posted in a regional paper indicating the presence of mercury in three major river systems of the province.
Dr. Rasmus Køster-Rasmussen MD, research assistant at the Department of Public Health University of Copenhagen, Denmark said that the mere presence of mercury in the water system regardless of its concentration is enough to call the attention of the public.
The miners who are the ones directly in contact with the chemical, he said, should be more concerned ”to take action and stop the mercury use.”
Mercury poisoning in human, he said, is a matter that should be taken seriously since it could cause irreversible brain damage.
The neurological effect of mercury exposure could be manifested with tremor, memory loss, anxiety, inability to sleep, aggressive personality changes, deafness, visual, and sensory disturbances.
Rasmussen said that mercury could enter the human body in three ways:
First is through inhalation of the metal fumes during the process of malgamation and when the chemical vaporizes when exposed in room temperature.
Second is by eating or drinking the organic form of mercury which could be found in fishes (that ate contaminated micro-organisms in water), contaminated drinking water or from crops irrigated with contaminated water.
The human being the top in the food chain, according to Rasmussen will get the highest concentration of mercury for eating contaminated food from the lower level of the food chain.
Thirdly, mercury could also be acquired by birth because mothers exposed to mercury will transfer the toxic chemical to their unborn child eventually affecting the intellectual capability of their growing children.
Said chemical is acquired but will not be flushed out from the body. Mothers, on the other hand, upon transferring to their children the chemical, could lessen the concentration in their body.
Offering a solution, the researcher said that miners could instead use borax as a replacement of the hazardous mercury in purifying the gold in their mining activities.
Accompanying Dr. Rasmus Køster-Rasmussen are Dr. Marie Brasholt of Dialogos with Emy Perez and Leoncio Na-oy of BAN toxics. *(JDP/GGD-PIA CAR, Kalinga)
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Kalinga
Public condemns foiled attempt to burn govt station in Kalinga
by Gigi Dumallig
TABUK CITY, Kalinga- Various groups and the city government of Tabuk made the initial move this morning to condemn the attempt of still unidentified suspects to burn the only government radio station in the province.
In a statement over DZRK Radyo ng Bayan, city Mayor Ferdinand Tubban, Cordillera Bodong Authority secretary general Placido Alsiyang Jr. and Philippine Information Agency Infocenter manager Peter Balocnit have condemned in the strongest possible terms the attempt to destroy said government institution.
Station manager Basilio Baluyan said the police are still investigating the motive of said the act expressing hope that the perpetrators will soon be identified for the filing of appropriate charges.
The alleged attempt to burn down the station happened at around 1:02 a.m. of May 25,2011, according to Paulo Dayag, security guard in charge. He said that he was awaken by a loud noise inside the lavatory, getting up he saw a bright light coming from the room. Immediately he took the fire extinguisher and woke up the station’s technician, Willie Anastacio, and both immediately put off the fire.
Baluyan said that if somebody has any ill feelings against whatever was aired in the station, he should not resort to such vindictive act considering that the establishment is a government-owned facility.
“If they feel they were hurt by some pronouncement, they should come to me or file a complaint but should not retaliate in a way which is destructive to the facility and the lives of the people working here,” he said.
During the investigation, police found two half burnt empty 1.5 soft drink bottles inside the station’s comfort room and lavatory confirmed to have contained the gasoline used to instigate the fire.
Outside the station, an unused gasoline inside a 1.5 soft drinks was left by the suspects who could have immediately left upon finding out that there a security guard who was alerted.
This is not the first time that the station was harassed. Last May 15, 2010, DZRK anchor Jerome Tabanganay was shot by two assailants just outside the station.
Former radio announcer Placido Alsiyang Jr., also recalled that during his stint, they had also experienced incidents of harassment, but the threats at present he said are more daring and destructive. *(JDP/GGD-PIA CAR, Kalinga)
TABUK CITY, Kalinga- Various groups and the city government of Tabuk made the initial move this morning to condemn the attempt of still unidentified suspects to burn the only government radio station in the province.
In a statement over DZRK Radyo ng Bayan, city Mayor Ferdinand Tubban, Cordillera Bodong Authority secretary general Placido Alsiyang Jr. and Philippine Information Agency Infocenter manager Peter Balocnit have condemned in the strongest possible terms the attempt to destroy said government institution.
Station manager Basilio Baluyan said the police are still investigating the motive of said the act expressing hope that the perpetrators will soon be identified for the filing of appropriate charges.
The alleged attempt to burn down the station happened at around 1:02 a.m. of May 25,2011, according to Paulo Dayag, security guard in charge. He said that he was awaken by a loud noise inside the lavatory, getting up he saw a bright light coming from the room. Immediately he took the fire extinguisher and woke up the station’s technician, Willie Anastacio, and both immediately put off the fire.
Baluyan said that if somebody has any ill feelings against whatever was aired in the station, he should not resort to such vindictive act considering that the establishment is a government-owned facility.
“If they feel they were hurt by some pronouncement, they should come to me or file a complaint but should not retaliate in a way which is destructive to the facility and the lives of the people working here,” he said.
During the investigation, police found two half burnt empty 1.5 soft drink bottles inside the station’s comfort room and lavatory confirmed to have contained the gasoline used to instigate the fire.
Outside the station, an unused gasoline inside a 1.5 soft drinks was left by the suspects who could have immediately left upon finding out that there a security guard who was alerted.
This is not the first time that the station was harassed. Last May 15, 2010, DZRK anchor Jerome Tabanganay was shot by two assailants just outside the station.
Former radio announcer Placido Alsiyang Jr., also recalled that during his stint, they had also experienced incidents of harassment, but the threats at present he said are more daring and destructive. *(JDP/GGD-PIA CAR, Kalinga)
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Kalinga