Guide in Filing SSS Disability Benefit 2025 Claim
SSS DISABILITY BENEFIT 2025 – Here’s a guide in filing a Disability Benefit claim to the Social Security System including the requirements.
Nowadays, many people do not only prepare for the future but as well as for unforeseen circumstances like medical emergencies. The preparation may include saving money but it can also be through maintaining active memberships to entities that provide financial solutions.
In the Philippines, one of the social insurance giants is the SSS or the Social Security System. It has a multi-million member populace. Most of its members are employees of the private sector as it is required of them to maintain an active membership to the state entity.
An SSS membership gives you access to several SSS loans as well as benefit offers that you can turn to in times of financial needs. One of the benefit offers is the SSS Disability Benefit.
While no person would want to have a disability, truth be told that it is one of the most inevitable realities as there are a lot of incidents that may cause it. Thus, it is best to make sure that you have something to turn to in case it happens to you.
The SSS Disability Benefit offer covers both partial and permanent disabilities. Here are the instances covered under the benefit offer:
- has partial/total disability
- one finger
- one hand
- one arm
- one foot
- one leg
- both ears
- hearing of one ear or both ears
- one eyesight
- complete loss of sight of both eyes
- loss of two limbs at or above the wrists or ankles
- permanent complete paralysis of two limbs
- brain injury that leads to incurable imbecility or insanity
- other cases of total disability approved by the SSS
A member of the Social Security System must have paid at least 1 month of contribution before the semester of disability to be eligible to avail the benefit offer. Under it, a member may get either the SSS Disability Benefit pension or the SSS Disability Benefit lump sum depending on the total contributions posted.
To avail the benefit offer, a member should prepare and submit the SSS Disability Benefit requirements in filing claim. Please note that the doctor under the SSS may require additional documents to be submitted.
With regards to the pension or lump sum, the Social Security System may release it through an account under any of the following SSS-accredited banks:
- Asia United Bank (AUB)
- China Bank
- Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP)
- Landbank of the Philippines
- Philippine National Bank (PNB)
- PSBank
- Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC)
- Security Bank
- UnionBank