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Senator Imee Marcos encouraged the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Monday to establish more social security agreements (SSAs) with other nations, particularly those that have a significant number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

Once approved by at least two-thirds of the Senate, an SSA deal with Korea will be the Philippines’ 16th successful SSA negotiation since 1982.

According to information from the Social Security System (SSS), the countries that have bilateral SSAs in place are Austria (1982), the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland (1989), Spain (1989), France (1994), Canada (1997), Quebec (1998), the Netherlands (2001), Switzerland (2004), Belgium (2005), Denmark (2015), Portugal (2017), Germany (2018), Japan (2018), Sweden (2019), and Luxembourg (2020).

According to Marcos, OFWs in nations with which the Philippines does not have SSA pacts must make several social security payments.

Dalawa or tatlong beses, the Filipino sahod is now being nakakaltasan. There isn’t now a salary deduction being made twice to three times from Filipino workers’ salaries. Aileen Mendiola-Rau, assistant secretary for DFA, was questioned by the committee chair, “Do we have a plan to speed this process up?

Rau promised to cooperate with DMW in talks with foreign counterparts to add more SSAs and provide the committee with a status report.

The Philippines-Korea SSA is anticipated to enable and operationalize the Philippine government’s constitutional obligation “to afford full protection to labor, whether local or overseas.”

It is anticipated that over 62,000 Filipinos living in South Korea will benefit from the SSA.

The SSA was signed in November 2019 but outside of the commemorative summit between ASEAN and the Republic of Korea, which former president Rodrigo Duterte attended.

In addition to other aspects of the SSA, the social security coverage for Korean OFWs will continue to be provided by Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), and there will be no transfer of contributions to the SSS.

According to the SSS, the renegotiated agreement also allows OFWs to receive their NPS payments back after their job contract under the same terms as Korean citizens.

The SSA was first created in 2005, but several of the terms, such as coverage and the lump amount refund, were contested by OFWs.

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