SOCIAL Security System (SSS) members involuntarily separated from work due to the huge impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic can now apply for unemployment benefit online from the state-pension fund.

In a statement issued on Thursday, SSS said qualified members were covered employees, including kasambahays (househelps) and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), who have paid at least 36 monthly SSS contributions, wherein 12 months of it should have been paid within the last 18 months before the month of involuntary separation.

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