Militant lawmakers slammed the economic managers of President Rodrigo Duterte over the Social Security System pension hike issue and dared them to live with P40 only, the present daily equivalent of the P1,200 monthly base pension of the country’s SSS pensioners.
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said the problem on deciding to raise the Social Security System pension of retirees should not be passed on to President Rodrigo Duterte.
The city government here is mulling to extend a financial aid for another province in the typhoon-struck Visayas.
A militant partylist group slammed three cabinet secretaries of the Duterte administration for “junking and sabotaging” Congressional measure that would grant the immediate Social Security System pension increase of P2,000 effective this month.
The city government here will extend P11 million financial aid to the victims of typhoon Nina (international name: Nock-Ten) that hit Luzon and several parts of the Visayas region.