SSS Contribution Remittance Extended until June 30, 2020

Remittance of contributions to the Social Security System (SSS) for the Month of February, March and April 2020 will be extended until June 30, 2020.

The country were on strict quarantine on the middle of March 2020 and has just recently started to ease the quarantine measures and the SSS has understand the predicament of small businesses to fund the contributions during those times especially that most of the small businesses were also on shut down during those periods and most revenue of small businesses has gone down to nil.

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