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SSS, DICT to expand social security coverage for 1.5 million freelancers

Rappler ·

The following is a press release from the Social Security System. The Social Security System (SSS) and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on October 21 to expand social security protection for the country’s estimated 1.5…

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