{"id":53839,"date":"2015-06-30T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T09:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53839"},"modified":"2015-06-30T19:16:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T11:16:02","slug":"escudero-sss-should-explain-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/30\/escudero-sss-should-explain-rate-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Escudero: SSS should explain rate hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24562\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24562\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Francis-Chiz-Escudero-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24562\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Francis-Chiz-Escudero-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Francis 'Chiz' Escudero (Chiz Escudero's Facebook page)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Francis-Chiz-Escudero-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Francis-Chiz-Escudero-3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Francis &#8216;Chiz&#8217; Escudero (Chiz Escudero&#8217;s Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Senator Francis Escudero wants the Social Security System (SSS) to explain its planned increase in the contributions of its members.<\/p>\n<p>Escudero said SSS should do the explanation before implementing the adjustment inorder to ensure transparency in the said increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope they explain very clearly to the SSS members where their contributions would go and how the SSS would use this,\u201d Escudero said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that there is a need for them to explain the increase after they already hiked the contribution rate last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey recently raised the contributions, did this bring about a better service to its members?\u201d\u00a0Escudero said.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, SSS will increase the monthly contributions of its members by one percent.<\/p>\n<p>They are planning to implement the increase before the end of the President Aquino&#8217;s term in 2016 in order to extend the life of the state pension fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Senator Francis Escudero wants the Social Security System (SSS) to explain its planned increase in the contributions of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-53839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53839","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=53839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}