Social Security System (SSS) is trying its best, except in one policy
Posted on Wednesday, 24 August 2016
SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM (SSS) IS TRYING ITS
BEST,
EXCEPT IN ONE POLICY
By Apolinario Villalobos
The one policy of the SSS that applicants
abhor is on the release of membership ID cards. For one thing, it takes a very
long time before an applicant receives his or her membership ID card. Another
thing is the rule about sending them to the address of the applicant by mail.
Now, that’s where the problem lies because due to poverty, many applicants
cannot afford a decent boarding house with postal address. Many of them live in
slums where hovels are makeshift and unregistered, hence, not numbered for
postal reference. Some even live under bridges and beside creeks. So what
address does the SSS expect from these impoverished applicants who join long
queues to get an SSS membership number that they need, being required by all
employers?
SSS should assign a dedicated desk for the
release of cards or integrate the function with that of their Help Desk if they
have any. If the applicants have been patient in toeing the line to apply for
the membership number, they surely has time to go back to pick up the card at
the same office where they filed their application. The agency can also post a
list of cards ready for pick up, at a designated area within the lobby or the reception
area or anywhere the agency wishes, within their premises. The list may also be
published in their website, to avoid unnecessary personal query on the part of
the members.
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