PDEA,SSS signs MOA

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=1&rid=802069
• Wednesday, September 9, 2015

(PNA), RMA/CLTC

MANILA, Sept. 9 (PNA) -- A memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Social Security System was signed to give full support to cover the contractual, job-order and permanent personnel as members under the Social Security Law of the Philippines.

PDEA Director General Undersecretary Arturo G. Cacdac, Jr. and SSS Senior Vice President Judy Frances A. See signed the agreement in a ceremony recently at the PDEA National Headquarters in Quezon City.

Under the agreement, the SSS Self-employed program is applicable to all contractual and job-order personnel in the employ of the government but not coverable under the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) Law for such personnel to have protection against the hazards of disability, sickness, maternity, old age, death, and other contingencies that SSS offers.

Cacdac said the agreement between PDEA and SSS allowed contractual and job orders personnel of PDEA to maintain consistently the remittances of their monthly premium contributions and payments of loan amortizations.

He added the permanent PDEA personnel, who are also SSS members by virtue of their previous private employment, may reactivate their membership by paying SSS contributions as voluntary members.

“This agreement is a step forward in achieving the new partnership of PDEA and SSS that contractual, job orders and permanent PDEA employees will gain access to SSS benefits and loans privileges as active SSS members,” Cacdac said.