Do read this Manila Standard article by Horace T. Templo

The article talks about several interesting bills that are .... shall we say, laying about Congress

Several bills are on increasing retirement pensions ....
   such as those seeking to raise the SSS minimum from  1,200 to 1,300 then to 3,000, and further to 5,000
of course i have my eyebrows on stun (like Spock's, i mean)
nice bills, but like he says also, sort of doomed to linger .....

there is a similar one for the government employees - which is to use the last pay as basis - same as the Armed Forces.  I just want to say that soldiers have more risks than the usual government employee so i dont think that is exactly kosher .....

The plans for the senior citizens ... housing etc... is similar to the US Federal grant for seniors, there is special housing for seniors, but one has to queue for it.  i've seen some of these residences in the US, and the well-run ones are certainly very nice.

i do miss though plans for the disabled, i am of course, one of them.
and i have gone on small rants in this bkig about broken promises from P-Noy about this.
So much for equal opportunity for the disabled  ....  there is not even a tax break for the disabled, there should be - to encourage the disabled to work, and not wait for hand-outs.  i think the disabled should be granted double the exemptions of regular people -

paging P-Noy and his supporters, or has he lost a lot of them already?

Do read  Horace's article to see what i mean

Click here to read HTT's article "most-worthy-pending-bill"

The Disabled or Persons with Disability

There is, of course, the Magna Carta for the Disabled....

Reading the provisions, it seems that the disabled person himself does NOT have any tax incentive.  People who either live with him get him for a dependent, but he himself does not get a single extra tax incentive for whatever earnings he can manage.

Some disabled persons can work, and can be gainfully employed.  However, he will be taxed like a normal person.  There seems to be something wrong with that.

Calling P-Noy or the BIR or Ralph Recto - perhaps they can look into the matter?

Prescriptive period for SSS Benefits

Prescriptive Period for Filing Retirement, Death and Funeral Claims There is a prescriptive period of  10 years in the filing of adjustments for the following SSS benefits: Disability Retirement Death Funeral sa madaling salita, hindi na maaaring mag-apply o magpa-adjust para sa mga ganitong benepisyo pagnakaraan ng 10 taon.

SSS BENEFIT: DISABILITY

This is just a short post on disability and this is being posted because i noticed some inquiries on this issue.

Not all disability benefits are granted as a pension.  Some benefits are granted as a lump sum amount. And some disability pensions have a specific term.  Some are awarded disability pensions for life, depending on the reasons for disability.  The amount of disability depends on the medical evaluation of the SSS physician. 

 The forms that would be needed are:
Disability Application Form
Click for the Disability Claim Application form 

Disability Medical Certificate

Click for the regular printed Disability - Medical Cerfificate

Disability - Employment Data

Click here for the Disability - Employment Data form

I will again attempt to post picture of the forms, but if i am not successful - as there are problems with the blog and my mozilla, just click as above to see.

here are the images of the forms: