The Social Security Act of 2018 mandates the government to provide unemployment benefits to private sector employees who were involuntarily separated from employment.
[2] The payments are sourced from the country's Social Security System (SSS).
[1] The benefits are not dispensed as a loan and thus does not incur additional fees to the claimant.
The Social Security Act of 1954 has provisions related to unemployment benefits but the provisions were included without prior study on the solvency of the then to be established social security system.
Eligible workers are those who have made the compulsory 12 months integrated contributions to the GSIS under Republic Act No.