“MIDNIGHT perks” amounting to P500,000 a month in monthly wage increase and additional benefits are expected to be received by top executives of the Social Security System (SSS) before President Benigno Aquino 3rd bows out of office on June 30, according to the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP)-Nagkakaisa, the country’s biggest confederation of labor groups.

The TUCP, through spokesman Alan Tanjusay, on Thursday said the move is “immoral, unjust and indecent” because it would in effect deprive some 1,000 SSS rank-and-file of any salary increase.

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