{"id":987522036,"date":"2021-04-20T03:11:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T02:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/the-philippines-to-suspend-social-security-and-healthcare-premium-hikes-for-2021\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:33:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:33:35","slug":"the-philippines-to-suspend-social-security-and-healthcare-premium-hikes-for-2021","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/the-philippines-to-suspend-social-security-and-healthcare-premium-hikes-for-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philippines to Suspend Social Security and Healthcare Premium Hikes for 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines House of Representatives passed House Bill\u2019s No. 8461 and 8512 which authorizes the President to suspend the premium contribution hikes for social security programs.&nbsp;The contribution rate for the SSS was supposed to increase from the current 12 percent to 13 percent, but this has now been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension pertains to the premiums for Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (<a href=\"https:\/\/cnnphilippines.com\/news\/2021\/3\/30\/PhilHealth-hospital-tents-no-coverage.html\">PhilHealth<\/a>) and the Social Security System (SSS).&nbsp;The government had planned to increase the premium rate to 3.5 per cent but instead will remain at the three per cent rate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To know more details read the original article published in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aseanbriefing.com\/news\/the-philippines-to-suspend-social-security-and-healthcare-premium-hikes-for-2021\/\">Asean Briefing here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/s3-prod.modernhealthcare.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/width_792\/public\/insurance.png\">prod.modernhealthcare.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about the suspension of health insurance premium hikes in the Philippines? Do let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines House of Representatives passed House Bill\u2019s No. 8461 and 8512 which authorizes the President to suspend the premium contribution hikes for social security programs.&nbsp;The contribution rate for the SSS was supposed to increase from the current 12 percent to 13 percent, but this has now been suspended. The suspension pertains to the premiums&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[129],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987522036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}