Mindanaotoday.com | SSS CDO inks MOA with Brgy 29 for E-Center, KaltaSSS programs
By: Jasper Marie Rucat
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – In a move to bring services closer to its members, the Social Security System (SSS) Cagayan de Oro branch signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Barangay 29 to establish an “E-Center sa Barangay” and “KaltaSSS Collect” program, March 3.
Antonio Fabia, SSS CDO branch head, said the e-center is an online platform of the SSS where members can access and transact online.
“The purpose of the E-Center is to assist our constituents in accessing the SSS website, because almost everything is there, including applications, SSS programs, benefit claims, and so on. They do not need to go to the office to personally transact; they can save money on their fare and their time in lining up there,” Fabia said.
Meanwhile, through the KaltaSSS Collect program, job order workers in the barangay are assured of social protection.
“Our employees who are not members of the GSIS can enroll in KaltaSSS to become SSS members. If you have job jrders (JOs), the JO is not a direct employee of the barangay or government, so they do not have GSIS, but SSS is here to provide and give access to benefits, and we can give them benefits in times of contingencies,” Fabia said.
Barangay Chair Apolinar Bonete expressed his gratitude to SSS Cagayan de Oro for the program and technical support.
“We are so grateful, together with the officials of Barangay 29, for the effort today of the SSS, because this can help hugely to the residents not only Barangay 29 but also to the entire population of Cagayan de Oro, because they will no longer have to go personally to SSS, that their transactions can be done here in Barangay 29. My gratitude to SSS that they have done this today,” said Bonete.
Meanwhile, SSS assistant branch head Ira Levin A. Filoteo said they are closely coordinating with all barangays in Cagayan de Oro to replicate the establishment of E-center sa Barangay so that all constituents in Cagayan de Oro will have ease of access, through their barangays.
In due time, all SSS services will be online; no more over the counter, Filoteo added. (JMOR | PIA-10)
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