The Social Security System (SSS) today
conducts simultaneous
Run After Contribution
Evaders (RACE) operations in 108 selected areas
around the country to call
on non-compliant employers to settle their contribution delinquencies.
SSS President
and Chief Executive Officer Rolando Ledesma Macasaet said that the synchronous RACE activities
across the country affirm
SSS’ commitment in ensuring the social security
protection of its 31.96 million employee-members.
“We will be issuing notices to business
employers around the
country who neglect their
legal obligations of paying their employer and
employees’ share in the
contributions because it
deprives them of the social
security benefits they truly
deserve,” Macasaet said.
After receiving
the Show Cause Orders,
he said SSS gives delinquent employers 15 days
to coordinate with their
respective servicing SSS
Branch Office and settle
their contribution delinquencies.
Macasaet reminded all employers that
Republic Act No. 11199 or
the Social Security (SS)
Act of 2018 requires them
to report for coverage to
the SSS all their employees and/or kasambahays
within 30 days from their
actual employment date
and remit the corresponding monthly contributions
of their workers.
On the other
hand, household employ
ers shall shoulder the SS
contributions of kasambahays who are earning
P5,000 or less.
Under the SS
Act, employers who fail to
register their employees
or have not deducted and
remitted their contributions
will be penalized with a fine
of P5,000 to P20,000 and
face imprisonment ranging
from six (6) years and one
(1) day to 12 years.
“We appeal to all
employers to be considerate to their employees by
reporting them to SSS and
regularly remitting their
monthly contributions so
they can be protected by
receiving social security
benefits in times of various
contingencies,” Macasaet
said.
He urged them to
settle their delinquencies
by availing of the contribution penalty condonation programs offered by
SSS that will allow them
to pay the unremitted contributions less the accrued
penalties.
Delinquent business employers can apply
for the Contribution Penalty Condonation, Delinquency Management and
Restructuring Program
(CPCoDe MRP) while
Household Employers can
avail of the Contribution
Penalty Condonation and
Restructuring Program
(CPCR-P).
SSS conducted
its first RACE operations
in 2017 when it visited
delinquent employers in
Greenhills, San Juan,
and Cubao, Quezon City.
The following year, SSS
brought the RACE campaign to the regional level.
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