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To enhance the social protection of Filipino employees and bolster their safety nets, especially retirees, the government must gather its authorities.

At the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment, and Human Resource Development’s organizational meeting on Monday, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano commented and added that the state financial aid program can act as a form of worker protection.

When officials from the Social Security System, Government Service Insurance System, Department of Finance, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department of Labor and Employment, and other government agencies and non-governmental organizations implementing social protection programs came together to coordinate their policies, according to Cayetano, this was accomplished during the administration of former President Joseph Estrada.

“I believe the social protection cluster inside the (government) can develop some initiatives that would effectively kill two or three birds with one stone,” he said.

The congressman concentrated on the emergency employment program Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD), which the labor department launched in 2020 at the commencement of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.

To continue assisting workers in the post-pandemic recovery period and to reactivate them as paying social security members, he urged that DOLE and SSS collaborate to make the most of the TUPAD program.

He claimed that by improving the safety nets for Filipino workers, the need for extensive financial relief programs like those at the height of the pandemic could be reduced or eliminated.

The senator added that the average retiree only receives meager monthly social security pensions of PHP3,000 to PHP4,000 and is thus forced to rely on their working children or savings, adding that more needs to be done to improve the current safety net for workers as these are insufficient for even their basic needs.

I believe this is a long-term project we can work on. “Realistically, maybe it will take 10, 20 years to fix it, so it will be forgotten when it is fixed, but if we don’t start now, we won’t be able to fix the issue,” “said he.

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