{"id":51407,"date":"2015-06-07T04:41:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T20:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51407"},"modified":"2015-06-07T04:41:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T20:41:36","slug":"house-oks-p2000-pension-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/07\/house-oks-p2000-pension-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"House oks P2,000 pension hike on second reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_157841786.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35066\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_157841786-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_157841786\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_157841786-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_157841786-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_157841786.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The House of Representatives approved on second reading the bill increasing the pension of pensioners of the Social Security System (SSS) by up to P2,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that those receiving the lowest monthly pension of P1,200 will get P3,200 when the measures becomes a law,\u201d\u00a0Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares said.<\/p>\n<p>Colmenares, the principal author of the bill, also noted that the approval is a &#8220;positive development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe P2,000 is a good start and we will keep on pushing for a further increase,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Colmenares added that six of his colleagues in the Makabayan bloc earlier proposed to make the across-the-board SSS pension increase P5,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank committee on government enterprises and privatization chairman Rep. Jesus Sacdalan (of North Cotabato) for facilitating the passage of the bill in his committee,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Colmenares said that he is also hoping that the House whould approve the measure on third and final reading before the start of the second regular session on June 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The House of Representatives approved on second reading the bill increasing the pension of pensioners of the Social &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}