List of Requirements for SSS Unemployment Benefit 2024 Filing of Claim

REQUIREMENTS FOR SSS UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT 2024 – Listed below are the documents needed in applying for the Social Security System benefit.

There is a huge benefit in maintaining an active membership social insurance institutions — you have something to turn to when hard times happen. For example, when losing a job. Truth be told that losing a source of income can be really financially-challenging most especially if you are the sole earner or the breadwinner in the family.

In the Philippines, if you are a member of the Social Security System, one of the social insurance giants in the country, you have the SSS Unemployment Benefit that you can turn to after involuntarily losing your job. It is one of the many benefits offered by the SSS.

The state-run social insurance institution designed the said benefit offer so members who lost their job, most especially in an abrupt manner, won’t be left with nothing. There are a few requirements for the SSS Unemployment Benefit filing of claim.

Let us first tackle the eligibility requirements under the SSS Unemployment Benefit offer. To qualify, the SSS member must meet the following qualifications for the filing of claim:

• not over 60 years old upon the termination from service except for the following situations:
  • if underground or surface mineworker, member-applicant must not go beyond 50 years of age to qualify
  • if racehorse jockey, the member-applicant must not be above 55 years old
• has paid not less than a total of 36 monthly contributions with 12 of the premiums posted within the 18-month period prior to the month of termination from employment
• has not received an unemployment benefit within the last three (3) years prior to the month of termination from work

Here are the grounds considered for eligibility to the Unemployment Benefit offer of the Social Security System with regards to the nature of the involuntarily job loss:

• Article 298 and 299 of Presidential Decree No. 442 or Labor Code of the Philippines
  • Use of machineries to speed up work
  • Redundancy in employment
  • Reduction of workforce
  • Company closure
  • Health reason
• Wrongful treatment from the employer
• Dropping of the economy
• Natural calamity

The SSS has also made clear the grounds that disqualifies a member from the Unemployment Benefit offer. He/She must have not lost the job due to any of the following:

• Serious misconduct
• Willful disobedience to lawful orders
• Gross and habitual neglect of duties
• Fraud or willful breach of trust/loss of confidence
• Commission of a crime or offense
• Analogous cases like abandonment, gross inefficiency, disloyalty/ conflict of interest/ dishonesty

With regards to the documentary requirements for the SSS Unemployment Benefit offer application, here are the documents that you must submit in the filing of claim to the SSS:

• Original and photocopy of any primary identification cards (IDs) or documents
• Department of Labor and Employment or DOLE Certification that proves the way and date of forceful job loss
• Notice of Termination from the Employer / Affidavit of Termination of Employment