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SSS DEATH BENEFIT REQUIREMENTS 2025 – For secondary beneficiaries, here are the documents that must be submitted to the Social Security System.
Not all members of the Social Security System have partners or children. Thus, in this case, the SSS has set secondary beneficiaries under some of its benefit offers for its members. One of the said benefit offer with primary and secondary beneficiaries is the SSS Death Benefit.
The SSS Death Benefit is one of the benefit offers that extends to the family of the member. It provides relief for many members who are worried that their families will be left with nothing in case of their sudden demise.
The primary beneficiaries of an SSS member includes his/her dependent spouse, until he/she remarries, and the dependent legitimate, legitimated, or legally adopted, and illegitimate children of the deceased member. In the absence of the primary beneficiaries, the claim may be given to the secondary beneficiaries.
The secondary beneficiaries of an SSS members are his/her parents. The social insurance giant has set a different list of SSS Death Benefit requirements for the secondary beneficiaries which are as follows:
- Death Claim Application Form/Death Claim Application under Portability Law
- Death Certificate of deceased member duly registered with the Local Civil Registry (LCR) or issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), if without settled funeral benefit
- Member’s/Claimant’s Photo and Signature Card, if claimant has not been issued a UMID card
- UMID card enrolled as ATM or disbursement account from Philippine Electronic Fund Transfer System and Operations Network (PESONet) participating banks/disbursement channels of the following:
- validated initial deposit slip
- Passbook
- ATM card with name of claimant and account number
- UBP Quick Card
- duly-signed Bank Certificate/Statement issued within three (3) months prior to filing of claim with the following information:
- complete name of claimant
- Savings account number
- Bank branch
- Complete bank address
- E-Wallet such as PayMaya, screenshot of the mobile app containing the full name and mobile/account number
- RTCs/CPOs such as MLhuillier, mobile/account number
- claimant’s ID cards/documents with photo, signature and underwent biometric data capture process, any of the following:
- UMID card
- Driver’s License
- SS ID card
- Voter’s ID card
- National Bureau of Investigation
- Alien Certificate of Registration
- Postal Identity card
- (NBI) Clearance
- Permit to carry firearms outside of residence
- Seafarer’s Identification and Record Book (Seaman’s Book)
According to the Social Security System, if the SSS member died abroad, a “Death Certificate of deceased member issued by the Vital Statistics Office/County of Host Country or its equivalent or Report of Death issued by the Philippine Embassy or Consulate General” is part of the SSS Death Benefit requirements that must be submitted.
- Birth Certificate of deceased member duly registered with LCR or issued by the PSA, if parents is/are not reported in the deceased member’s Personal Record (E1/E4/RS1/OW1/NW1) and/or there is discrepancy in information
- Death Certificate duly registered with LCR or issued by the PSA of the following, whichever is applicable:
- Spouse, if deceased member is a widow/widower at the time of death
- Dependent child/ren
- Parent, if one of the parents is already deceased
- Marriage Certificate of parents duly registered with LCR or issued by the PSA, if date of death of member is prior to 24 May 1997
- Affidavit attesting to the parent’s dependency for support from the deceased member (Prescribed Form)
According to the social insurance giant, if the deceased member of the Social Security System died at the age of 65 or above, it is no longer needed to include a death certificate of the parents in the SSS Death Benefit requirements.