The Social Security System (SSS) has filed separate criminal charges against four business establishments for unremitted employees’ contributions and penalties with a total value of P15 million.
In a statement yesterday, the pension fund said it is also poised to charge another 655 delinquent employers soon for not remitting P257 million worth of workers’ contributions.
Rolando Macasaet, SSS president and chief executive officer, said a restaurant business under the name Juanito Galvez, fire extinguisher retail-refilling supplier Chedda General Merchandise, BPO service provider e-Telecare and car spare parts importer Cinwha Trading Corp. deprived their 140 employees of availing SSS benefits or applying for loan programs because of their non-remittance of contributions.
“SSS previously visited the four employers during RACE (Run After Contribution Evaders) operations to remind them to pay the contributions of their workers. However, they failed to settle their contribution delinquencies despite receiving violation notices from SSS,” Macasaet said.
Macasaet added that legal actions taken by SSS against these delinquent employers, among others, proves that the pension fund is serious and determined to penalize business establishments that failed to deduct and remit the monthly contributions of their workers.
Renato Jacinto Cuisia, SSS vice president, said restaurant owner Galvez had the highest contribution delinquency among the four delinquent employers at P11.1 million, composed of P4.8 million unpaid workers’ contributions and P6.4 million penalties.
Cuisia cited SSS records which showed that the establishment still needed to remit the SSS contributions of its 35 employees from June 2007 to August 2023.
He said all four erring employers were given multiple opportunities to settle their contribution delinquencies.
“However, they did not cooperate with the SSS and comply with the Social Security Law, leaving SSS with no other recourse but to file a case in court against them,” he said.
Earlier, SSS issued violation notices to more than 1,200 delinquent employers across the country in a synchronous RACE operation to remind them of the legal consequences of not remitting their employees’ contributions.
