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Business

SSS receives 4,000 sqm lot from Isabela LGU

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LAGAN , Isabela , July 20 --- The Social Security System ( SSS ) led by its President and Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel F . Dooc together with officials from the Isabela local government held the groundbreaking of the future site of the new SSS office in the capitol compound of the province .
In a ceremonial turnover held at the Balai Capitol , Barangay Alibagu , Ilagan , Isabela , Dooc thanked Isabela Governor Faustino G . Dy III ( inset photo , handshaking ) for the donation of the 4,000 square-meter lot . SSS is the only government agency that was given a property ' s deed of donation by Isabela LGU .
The SSS office that will occupy the donated lot will serve its three cities and 35 municipalities .

SSS , UnionBank tie up for Pension Loan Program

Inset photo shows ( second row , left to right ) Office of the Commission Secretary Senior Vice President Santiago Dionisio R . Agdeppa , Chief Legal Counsel and Legal Enforcement Group Senior Vice President Voltaire P . Agas , Department of Labor and Employment ( DOLE ) Undersecretary Ciriaco A . Lagunsad III , Branch Evaluation Services Department Manager III Gloria Cuisia , Isabela Provincial Administrator Atty . Noel Manuel R . Lopez , DOLE Secretary and SSC Commissioner Ex-Officio Member Silvestre H . Bello III , Isabela Vice Governor Antonio T . Albano , and members of Isabela provincial board .

T he Social Security System ( SSS ) and Union Bank of the Philippines ( UBP ) signed an agreement for the SSS Pension Loan Program ( PLP ) at the President ' s Board Room , SSS Building , East Avenue , Diliman , Quezon City last Sept . 3 .

Above photo shows SSS President and Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel F . Dooc and UBP President and Chief Executive Officer Edwin R . Bautista during the signing of the agreement that will allow loan proceeds of the PLP be directly credited to the pensioner ' s UBP Quick Card . Pension Loan Program is a financial assistance program for qualified SSS retiree-pensioners , which offers loans of up to P32,000 at low interest .

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