Failure of communication blamed for veto of SSS pension increase

By Argyll Cyrus B. Geducos and Mario B. Casayuran “A failure in communication” is how former Interior and Local Government Secretary Rafael Alunan called President Aquino’s rejection of the bill increasing the pension of beneficiaries of the Social Security System (SSS). In a news forum yesterday, Alunan said the legislative body should have communicated with the SSS and the President to discuss solutions to sustain the viability of SSS after the bill emanated from the House of Representatives. “I don’t think such a thing happened. They failed to coordinate and act as one team even though they are part of one big happy family called the Liberal Party,” he said. “Bakit hinintay pa to reach the last day just to veto it and break the hearts of pensioners? (Why wait for the last day to just veto the bill?)” LIAISON OFFICE Meanwhile, Sen. Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. who sought yesterday an [...]