State-run Social Security System said Wednesday total website transactions reached 5.5 million in 2015, as more members and employers used the online facility.
SSS said the transactions jumped 53 percent from 3.64 million in 2014 as members found it easier and faster to transact with the pension fund.
SSS officer-in-charge of service delivery department Renato Malto said the year-end number of web-registered users grew last year across the various types of SSS members, with the highest rate of increase recorded among regular employees and overseas Filipino workers at 8 percent.
Malto said the overall number of web-registered members rose 8 percent from 3.24 million in 2014 to 3.50 million in 2015, while the number of employers with SSS web accounts surged 32 percent from 187,152 in 2014 to 247,385 last year.
“The SSS website is more than just an online facility for viewing general SSS information. Members and employers can also check their personal SSS records and perform several online transactions through the website, providing a convenient alternative to over-the-counter transactions at SSS branches,” he said.
Launched in 2008, the SSS website (www.sss.gov.ph) was upgraded in 2011 to allow the online submission of salary loan applications and maternity notifications by individual members and reports of newly-hired workers, employee maternity notifications, contribution and loan collection lists and certification of employee salary loan applications by employers.
The SSS website started accepting online sickness notifications by employers as well as technical retirement benefit claims by members and applications for social security numbers on Sept. 15.
“The bulk of the 5.55 million overall online transactions or 5.41 million were from employers using the SSS website to submit their employment and collection reports, salary loan applications of employees, and sickness and maternity notifications to facilitate the benefit availment of their workers,” Malto said.