Requirements for SSS application/ How to apply for SSS (for OFWs)?

Buhay OFW Org
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An Overseas Filipino Workers/ OFW should accomplish SSS Form OW-1 (Overseas Worker Record) and submit it together with a photocopy of any of the following: birth certificate, baptismal certificate, driver’s license, valid passport, Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) Card, or Seaman’s Book. In the absence of these documents, any two of the secondary documents mentioned earlier.

 

How can members change the data in their membership records? Changes in a member’s record should be reported immediately to the nearest SSS office by accomplishing SSS Form E-4 (Member’s Data Amendment) and submit a photocopy of the following:

  • marriage certificate for change of civil status;
  • birth or baptismal certificate of children for new/ additional/change of dependents/beneficiaries. birth or baptismal certificate or passport for correction of name and date of birth;

In the absence of the above-mentioned documents, submit a Certificate of Loss or Non-availability of the documents from the Local Civil Registrar of the place where the member was baptized and any two (2) of the following secondary documents, one of which with recent photo and date of birth, are acceptable:

  • Record of Employment
  • GSIS member’s Record
  • Certificate from the National Archives
  • Alien Certificate of Registration (ACR)
  • Birth Certificate of Children
  • Certificate of Naturalization issued by the Bureau of Immigration
  • Marriage Contract
  • Driver’s License issued by LTO
  • School records
  • Voter’s ID Card or Affidavit duly authenticated by COMELEC
  • TIN card
  • Life Insurance Policy
  • NBI Clearance
  • Pag-ibig Member’s Data Form
  • PHIC Member’s Record
  • Permit to carry firearms issued by the Fire & Explosives Unit, Camp Crame
  • Certification from the Office of the Cultural Minorities (Aetas, Negritoes, Mangyans, Manobos, Etc.)

For Muslim members, a certificate form the Sharia Court should always be attached to the supporting documents for the following member’s data change requests:

  • marriage certificate for change of civil status;
  • certificate of divorce for divorce
  • certificate of conversion for conversion

The original or certified true copies of the documents should be represented to the SSS for authentication purposes.

 

Who are considered the legal dependents of a member?

The legal beneficiaries of a member are the legally married dependent spouse until he or she remarries, the dependent legitimated or legally adopted and illegitimate children, who shall be the primary beneficiaries.

 

If single, the benefits will go to the dependent parents who are considered the secondary beneficiaries.

 

In the absence of both primary and secondary beneficiaries, any other person designated by the member as the secondary beneficiary.

 

When a member loses the SS ID card or cannot remember the SS number, should the member secure another SS number?

No. The SS number assigned to a member is the lifetime number and must always be used in all transactions with the SSS. The member should not secure another number at any other time.

 

If the member wishes to secure another SS ID card and cannot remember the SS number, it is advisable to inquire from the nearest SSS office. If a member has more than one SS number, this will cause delay in processing of the claim for benefits or loans in the future. Thus, it is important that a member should have only one SS number.

 

If a member has more than one SS number, it is important to write or visit the nearest SSS branch to request for the cancellation of the other number/s and consolidation of all of the contributions under the retained SS number. From then on, the retained SS number should always be used in all transactions with the SSS.

 

Source: Philippine Social Security System (www.sss.gov.ph)

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Rizza Asiatico
is in Singapore
Saan part po kau sa lucky plza and how much po ba2yaran pra mka pag member?
Atrina An Dro
is in Kuwait
Gusto ko po malaman kung anu ang mga benefits ng isang OFW na kagaya ko bilang member ng SSS ?
Gegie Libreja
is in Bahrain
Ask ko lang po pano po mag aply ng SSS ID kung nasa ibang bansa ka po saan po ako pwd mag aply?thanks.
Rhealyn Desales
is in the Philippines
Hi I am employed as private nurse here in jeaddah april last year. I already filled up an application form for ofw the time I attended the OWWA ceminar but havent git a chance to visit any sss office in the philippines before my flight going jeddah thats why I dont know my sss number. How can I know it? Do I need to fill up another form?
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