Rep. Mark Villar of Las Pinas City (Metro Manila) and party-list Rep. Neri Colmenares have called on their Senate counterparts to act on House Bill 5842, which seeks to raise the monthly pension of retired Social Security System members by P2,000 across-the-board.

Villar noted that while the SSS has implemented a five percent across-the-board pension increase for its 1.9 million retired members last June 2014, the adjustment is too paltry to make a dent.

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