{"id":91084,"date":"2025-08-23T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/91084\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T11:35:08","slug":"sss-pensioners-to-receive-up-to-33-increase-over-three-years-starting-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/91084\/","title":{"rendered":"SSS pensioners to receive up to 33% increase over three years starting September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security System (SSS) has announced a three-year pension increase starting September 2025, benefiting around 3.8 million pensioners without requiring higher member contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Under the plan, retirement and disability pensioners will receive a total of 33% increase in their monthly benefits, while death and survivor pensioners will get a 16% increase\u2014both spread out across three annual tranches.<\/p>\n<p>The phased increases will take effect every September:<br \/>\u2022\tSeptember 2025: 10% increase for retirement\/disability pensioners, 5% for death\/survivor pensioners (based on those active as of August 31, 2025)<br \/>\u2022\tSeptember 2026: Additional 10% and 5% increase, respectively (based on pensioners as of August 31, 2026)<br \/>\u2022\tSeptember 2027: Final 10% and 5% increase (for those as of August 31, 2027)<\/p>\n<p>The SSS emphasized that the increases aim to provide meaningful financial support to its members, especially retirees and their families, amid rising living costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Social Security System (SSS) has announced a three-year pension increase starting September 2025, benefiting around 3.8 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-91084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}