SSS Pension To Increase for 3 Consecutive Years Starting September 2025

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Social Security System Makes Announcement over SSS Pension for Retirement, Disability, and Survivorship Pensioners

SSS PENSION – The Social Security System announced an increase on the monthly pension for three (3) consecutive years starting September 2025.

Many Filipinos are pensioners of the Social Security System or more popularly called SSS, one of the social insurance giants in the country. Filipinos who are working in the private sector are mandated to maintain an SSS membership not only to widen their financial options but also to prepare for the future.

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When old age or the time of retirement from work comes, a retiring member of the Social Security System may apply for the SSS Retirement Benefit. A qualified member be granted either an SSS pension which is given monthly or an SSS lump sum.

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As to whether you will receive a monthly pension or a lump sum from your contributions to the Social Security System, it depends on the total monthly contributions that a member has posted at the time of retirement from work.

  • SSS Pension — if a member has posted at least one hundred twenty (120) monthly contributions prior to semester of the retirement
  • SSS Lump Sum — if the member-retiree has not reached the 120 total monthly contribution required under the benefit offer
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Aside from the total contributions, there are also some eligibility criteria set under the Retirement Benefits offer of the social insurance giant for its retiring members. It is open for the following:

  • a member with at least one hundred twenty (120) monthly contributions prior to semester of retirement; and
    • has reached sixty (60) years old and is separated from employment or has ceased to be self-employed, except:
      • In the case of an underground mineworker (R.A. No. 8558), at least 55 years old effective 13 March 1998; and
      • In the case of an underground or a surface mineworker (R.A. No. 10757), at least fifty (50) years old effective 27 April 2016; or
    • is at least sixty-five (65) years old, except:
      • in the case of an underground mineworker effective 13 March 1998 [R.A. No. 8558] or a surface mineworker effective 27 April 2016 (R.A. No. 10757), at least sixty (60) years old, and
      • in the case of a racehorse jockey (R.A. No. 10789), at least 55 years old effective 24 May 2016.
  • a former retiree-pensioner whose monthly pension was suspended due to re-employment/self-employment and is now separated from employment or has ceased to be self-employed.

Recently, the Social Security System announced a good news for its pensioners. According to the social insurance giant, the SSS pension will be increased three (3) times for three (3) consecutive years starting September 2025. According to the SSS, the hike will be applied on retirement, survivorship, and disability pensions.

The social insurance giant is set to implement a 10% increase on the SSS pension of retirement and disability pensioners while survivorship pensioners will get a 5% increase in their monthly pension. The same amount of increase will be implemented in September 2026 and September 2027.

According to the SSS, to qualify for the increase, the pensioner must be a pensioner already as of August 2025. Meanwhile, the social insurance giant clarified that while there would be an increase in the monthly pension of the retirees, the monthly contribution of the other members will continue at the same rates for three (3) years.

Aside from the monthly pension, the pensioners of the Social Security System also has another option in times of financial needs — the SSS Pension Loan.

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