Social Security System of the Philippines
SSS Online Inquiry. Click here to gain access to your SSS Contributions, Salary Loan Inquiry and Status, as well as SSS Number Inquiry.
Note:You need to login using your User ID and password when you first registered for an account. Also select the Employee or Employer check-box before you sign in. If you have not registered yet, go ahead and sign up here first. Brought to you by the Philippine Social Security Service (SSS).
Still can’t access the Online Inquiry System? Call them up or contact them here.
Update:
SSS Website Scheduled Downtime on June 20, 2009
Please be advised that the SSS Website will be inacessible on June 20, 2009 from 2:00PM – 5:00 PM. It will be back online after the system maintenance.
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SSS Online Inquiry is a service by the Social Security System of the Philippines that provides updates on member contributions, salary loans, SSS ID information, among others.
You can register and login for your member contribution information on the SSS Philippines website here: http://www.sss.gov.ph
You need to login using your User ID and password when you first registered for an account. Also select the Employee or Employer check-box before you sign in.
Non-Philippine Government employees are covered by SSS or the Social Security System in the Philippines. SSS contributions are automatically deducted from the monthly salary by the employer to be remitted to the SSS every month.
However, there are incidents when the company or employers are delayed in the payments or forgets to remit the SSS contributions.
Update:
SSS Website Scheduled Downtime on June 20, 2009
Please be advised that the SSS Website will be inacessible on June 20, 2009 from 2:00PM – 5:00 PM. It will be back online after the system maintenance.
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Been in the boondocks for about a week now on a semi-vacation mode (and semi-retreat kind of way) so I’m not able to regularly publish new entries here. With a thousand miles away from mega Manila and a couple hundred more miles from the nearest city, my mountain resort hide-away is almost devoid of any internet coverage.
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Social Security System of the Philippines
SSS Online Inquiry. Click here to gain access to your SSS Contributions, Salary Loan Inquiry and Status, as well as SSS Number Inquiry.
Note:You need to login using your User ID and password when you first registered for an account. Also select the Employee or Employer check-box before you sign in. If you have not registered yet, go ahead and sign up here first. Brought to you by the Philippine Social Security Service (SSS).
Still can’t access the Online Inquiry System? Call them up or contact them here.
Update:
SSS Website Scheduled Downtime on June 20, 2009
Please be advised that the SSS Website will be inacessible on June 20, 2009 from 2:00PM – 5:00 PM. It will be back online after the system maintenance.
SSS Online Inquiry is a service by the Social Security System of the Philippines that provides updates on member contributions, salary loans, SSS ID information, among others.
You can register and login for your member contribution information on the SSS Philippines website here: http://www.sss.gov.ph
You need to login using your User ID and password when you first registered for an account. Also select the Employee or Employer check-box before you sign in.
Non-Philippine Government employees are covered by SSS or the Social Security System in the Philippines. SSS contributions are automatically deducted from the monthly salary by the employer to be remitted to the SSS every month.
However, there are incidents when the company or employers are delayed in the payments or forgets to remit the SSS contributions.
Update:
SSS Website Scheduled Downtime on June 20, 2009
Please be advised that the SSS Website will be inacessible on June 20, 2009 from 2:00PM – 5:00 PM. It will be back online after the system maintenance.
In an SMS correspondence with a former Epixtar employee, it was revealed that the BPO company has closed its offices in Eastwood City, Libis last January 16 leaving employees confused and anxious for answers.
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In a memo circulated among employees of Intel Philippines, the chipmaker has finally conceded and will shut down its facilities in Gen Trias, Cavite by end of 2009.
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I got a call last night from a media researcher (for an investigative TV program) asking me about my take on the recent series of layoffs in the local BPO sector. They wanted to know if I think the job cuts were related to the global financial crisis.
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Barely 3 months after we saw big blog networks re-balancing their budgets, there’s another one that’s just finished brewing headed by Gawker Media’s head-honcho himself, Nick Denton, with a self-leaked internal memo.
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When the rumor that Intel Philippines was facing an impending closure in April this year, the company corrected this — saying that it’s weighing its options and could transfer its plant somewhere else. June has past and Intel officials have not released anything. I’ve sent out interview questions in the hopes of getting some updates.
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Philippine Social Security System: SSS Online Philippines
You can check your SSS contributions online by ff. these simple instructions:
Text SSS
Text-SSS is a short messaging service (SMS)-based information service system that allows members to inquire about their number of contributions, status of loan applications, salary loan payment period and loan balances using text messaging.
For a minimal text fee of P2.50 per inquiry sent through text messaging, a member can now have an alternate means of getting information without having to visit an SSS office.
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Reports of the new problogging pay scale over at Gawker Media has generated a lot of opinions and criticisms on how blog networks should compensate their bloggers. My thoughts are more about the apparent focus on pageviews over rss feeds.
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A recent article from Read/Write Web hypothesizes that bloggers can’t make significant money off of the long tail. While others agree, I don’t on several points.
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I went to meet an old acquaintance last week who was pitching an idea to me. Our discussion revolved around the choice between putting up an independent blog or writing for a blog network. I explained that there are two sides of the coin when going pro — would you consider it a business or a career? To illustrate, I compared the advantages and disadvantages of the different salary models currently being used by blog networks.
Early this year, when I was still writing for BlogHerald, I wrote this little observation…
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There are days when you got too many ideas and stuff to post and then there are days where nothing gets published. I would normally suggest pacing them and future-posting some but more often than not, it’s the timing that really counts so you just got to hit that publish button.
- MarcVill writes a nice post about blog networking and adds that putting up one is like going into a marriage. I’d like to push it a bit more and say having a blog network is like raising a family — treat your newborns carefully so they’ll grow up to be great kids.
- Over at PTB, Migs asks the question “Is the Philippines still a good place to work?“. It think it’s more than just the industry salary standards but the overall quality of the work environment. But I’d always say, it’s not how much you earn but how much you save that counts.
- GoDaddy succumbs to a DDos attack. No matter how big or small you are, if someone is hell bent on crushing you, you’d likely bow down on your knees.
- Several rounds of weng-weng were shared last night at Jill’s in The Fort to celebrate Sasha’s unshackling from the corporate rat race. Marc was floored at the Php8,000+ bill for such paltry orders. Never again, he says. Don’t worry pre, we’ll do your stag party somewhere else where it much more worth it.
- Got a scoop for BH yesterday about HostGator buying the design directory CSSVault for a whooping $USD100,000. Darn, that’s a lot of trailing zeros for a PR9 site.
- We’re off to the Davao Blog Party this week-end with Aileen and Jayvee. I’m excited to meet the Bisaya bloggers down south and as equally excited to take that whitewater rafting trip.
- Aileen is contemplating on making me sign an NDA before I meet her guest from Mountain View tomorrow. I don’t know exactly what she told the guys from the big G about me but I’d sure wanna sneak this little post before I sign anything above the dotted lines.
- PC World lists The 50 Most Important People on the Web and I’m sure John C. Dvorak will try to take a swing at it on the next TWiT podcast.
- A mobile phone tracking application wins this year’s Sweep Awards (Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program Innovation and Excellence Awards). Max is one of the judges. I saw this at MOA this week-end but never tried to get past the gated area.
About four months ago, Om Malik announces that he’s gotten some VC funding for his GigaOm blog though he did not mention how much money he got to go fulltime.
Then, ealier today blog network b5media announces a $2 Million VC funding — a well deserve amount to capitalize their growth and expansion. They really need this money for them to maintain their growth and excellent pool of bloggers.
Exactly a month ago, I blogged about ProBlogging Job: Fixed Pay or Revenue Share? with Filipino probloggers weighing in the benefits of each model. Will the b5media VC funding reflects a shift from revenue share model to flat salary? I guess so:
- Money is a great motivating factor. By shifting to a fixed rate (I heard $500/month plus bonus per 1k pageviews), you are giving more perks to the newer bloggers (6 months or less) since they will definitely get a fixed amount at the end of their first month and not sometime later depending on the blog revenue.
- The network could fill in non-blogging fulltime employees to take care of the operations. A salaried Sales team (or person) will go a long way. You can’t hire great sales people thru revenue sharing.
- Network owners could actually cash in and get their well-deserved salaries. They won’t just stay in a titular position but a fulltime position. Again, see point #1.
- Check and balance — since the VCs will come in as partners or part of the board, there’s some sort of “meeting real expectations” money-wise. Yes, VCs will always watch for their ROI.
So, I’ll end up with giving props to b5media especially to Jeremy for pulling things together. With this good news, I guess our fellow Filipino probloggers over there are celebrating with some virtual mojitos.
Stef is a mom of 4 and a prolific writer. She is still actually doing her book on cooking entitled “Beyond Adobo“.
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Most of you may already know or read about Jayvee from the popular mobile gadget magazine, m|PH (among others).
You can also read another write-up of him here.
The rest, we can just read from his personal blog. Now, we’ll learn how this prolific writer/editor got into problogging.
- How would you define problogging?
Problogging is the term used to describe online publishing as a legitimate source of income.
As a corollary, problogging also means using your blog as an online reference for certain topics of interest. It is your own “personal wiki” if you may call it that.
In sum, problogging may be the combination of two things – it is making money directly from your blog through different revenue sources, or making money indirectly using your blog as a self-promotion tool.
- When did you start blogging? When did you get into problogging and how did you realize that there’s some money to be had from it?
I have been blogging casually since the 3rd quarter of 2003.
I got into problogging in August of 2005 – and as most bloggers will tell you, by accident.
I wanted to utilize my writing skills to make money online so I surfed for possible writing gigs. Turns out I was at the right website at the right time – I discovered The Blog Herald, owned by Duncan Riley, who is now one of the directors of b5media. At that time, he was looking for writers for an existing technology blog and I immediately expressed my interest.
A few weeks later, I found out that the position was filled but Duncan told me that he found something “more suitable and more exciting for my style of writing” so I kept my fingers crossed and next thing you know, Cellphone9 was served to me on a silver platter.
- Which blogs are you writing for and which blog networks are you affiliated with?
My main blog where I concentrate most of my efforts is Cellphone9, the b5media blog on mobile technology. I also write for The AfterMac, a lifestyle blog on Apple products. I co-blog with Dickoy Magdaraog of Fight Pompe and Adel Gabot, the current EIC of m|PH magazine.
A Bugged Life is my personal blog.
- Are you problogging part time or full time? Do you see this career as a part time gig or you are looking into going fulltime problogging?
I see problogging as a part time gig. This is because I cannot guarantee that problogging will yield a consistent stream of income to pay for everything – at least not yet.
Darren Rowse of Problogger.net once wrote about how “going pro” should and will NEVER happen overnight. You can’t just decide to make blogging your life, quit your job tomorrow, blog like crazy, and then earn a few hundred dollars from Google the next week. It doesn’t happen that way, unfortunately.
Ask me again a year from now and I might give you a different answer. There are many variables in the blogging world that may affect how income streams are generated or cut off.
- How do you monetize your blog? Which ones bring in the most revenues?
It should be known that the ads are carefully chosen by the b5 network and not me. Right now there’s Google AdSense of course. But other than that there’s BlogAds, TextLinkAds, TextLinkBrokers, Kontera, AdBrite and BizRate. We used to subscribe to Chitika but not anymore. Feedback was that it wasn’t that great.
- What are the requirements to go into problogging for a network? Flat fee or profit sharing? How much is the salary range?
We follow the “you make your blog work for you” system. Although we don’t have a “fixed salary” I can sort of predict how much my sites make just by looking at the PageRank-based ads that pay a fixed rate. Getting your site’s PR up a few notches increases the value of your blog to advertisers.
Increasing your PR means blogging like crazy, linking to people and getting links from relevant sites.
- How much time do you spend on problogging?
On the average I give around 30 minutes to an hour a day. Sometimes two hours, when I get all giddy on the keyboard. I go really slow on weekends because I believe that bloggers need some “fresh space” every now and then to recharge on ideas.
One of the pitfalls of problogging is when you turn it into a boring routine. You’ll start to notice that your post quality goes down and your level of enthusiasm depreciates. And that’s a big no-no.
- What other benefits do you get from problogging?
People start to recognize you from your blog. Your blog becomes a legitimate source of reference for future jobs as fellow b5′er Aaron writes in Technosailor.com.
I also get insider knowledge about the blogging industry and get to interact with the b5 family from around the world. It keeps lonely nights happy.
As a “company benefit”, b5 hosts our personal blogs for free.
- What’s the most significant event/moment you had in your entire problogging career?
Too early to tell as of this moment. But so far, it would be when my site got mentioned in Gizmodo, giving me over 2,000 unique hits on that one post – in one day. In the long run, my site stats doubled in one month just because of that.
Money-wise, the most significant moment was when I went over the $100.00 mark in income, which happened over two months ago. If you put that in perspective, people from the Philippines won’t even believe me if I tell them that I make money out of blogging. The ‘blogging industry’ here is unheard of.
- What personal tips can you share with bloggers who want to try out problogging?
Blogging, just like journalism, the publishing industry, and the arts is a passion-based type of job. You gotta love what you’re doing – and be knowledgeable with your field of interest. It can be as niched as knitting, flying an airplane, gaming, or following the latest celebrity gossip.
Without the passion for something, no one will read you. Passion markets itself, and that’s where you should begin. Find your niche, blog about it and really “own” it.
Our next Filipino problogger is Paulo Ordoveza, more commonly known online as browpau. I’ve known him way back in college though we didn’t really got to know each other personally until he interviewed me back in 2000 as his replacement for a start-up company affiliated with PEx. He may not know this but he practically got me into blogging. He now lives in Washington, DC, where he works as a graphic designer and website developer.
- How would you define problogging?
Weblog as work: regular production of written online content, directed at a specific audience, with the purpose of profitably filling a specific topic-focused niche.
- When did you start blogging? When did you get into problogging and how did you realize that there’s some money to be had from it?
I started writing my personal weblog, “How Now Brownpau,” in September 2000, and added Google banners to it sometime in 2004. I didn’t really think of it as being “professional” while the ads were on HNBP; it was just a way to offset some of my web hosting costs, and also provide context-based external content to some of my entries for people arriving by way of nonrelated search terms.
Later on, realizing that I had bought several little low-end electronic devices, I decided to try starting a site on these same electronics to see if it would attract any interest — and profit. I had originally intended to make Cheap And Tiny a static clump of affiliate product pages with a few ads, but I then decided to see if the Gizmodo/Engadget way might not be a better route.
- Which blogs are you writing for and which blog networks are you affiliated with?
On a professional basis, just Cheap And Tiny, though there are a few other projects in the pipeline. I’m not affiliated with any particular weblog network, and I like my independence.
- Are you problogging part time or full time? Do you see this career as a part time gig or you are looking into going fulltime problogging?
Part time — very, very part time. I don’t think I’ll ever take it beyond that, because I’ve discovered that I find much more happiness and fulfillment in my day job as a graphic designer.
- How do you monetize your blog? Which ones bring in the most revenues?
Google Adsense, Chitika ads, Amazon affiliate links, and Thinkgeek and Macmall affiliate links via Commission Junction. Adsense and Amazon bring in the most money.
- What are the requirements to go into problogging for a network? Flat fee or profit sharing? How much is the salary range?
Definitely a flat fee to start. I’ve found out the hard way that profit sharing means there’s not much to share for the first couple of years, and that in turn means less motivation for your writers, who produce less content, which means less profit. Hence, a flat fee to provide incentive; you really need to spend some money at the start to gain more later.
- How much time do you spend on problogging?
Not much, and I haven’t been counting. The original aim, however, was to make one post a day to Cheap And Tiny, with not more than an hour per day devoted to each post.
- What other benefits do you get from problogging?
Aside from the [still-meager] income, you get a nice cross-pollination of interest. People who wouldn’t normally find your less popular sites or projects can discover them via links in your more interesting ones. Keep at least a few links in your sidebar for that purpose.
And if you’re not just duplicating links from the big pro weblogs, you find a lot of interesting content all on your own.
- What’s the most significant event/moment you had in your entire problogging career?
Probably the time I got a link from Matt Haughey, of Metafilter fame. Sadly I haven’t really capitalized on the popularity I got from back then, so the flood of inbound clicks from that day have sunk back to a trickle.
- What personal tips can you share with bloggers who want to try out problogging?
Keep at it. It takes a long time to become a popular, widely read, much-linked online cultural flashpoint — I’m talking years. You can’t be “ningas-kugon” about it; if it’s pro, you have to act pro, and actually work at it consistently for a long time, investing the same time and effort over the months and years as you did in the heat of excitement on the first few days.
Don’t attack other weblogs, don’t plagiarize, and for crying out loud, DO NOT SPAM. I know you’re impatient to get the word out about your wonderful site and become famous, but DO NOT SPAM the link all over email, weblog comments, and message boards. Spam will only establish you as an annoyance to be avoided, shunned, and blacklisted.
Also, be ready to adapt, and don’t be too enamored of the latest buzzwords. We say “blog” and “problog” and “Web 2.0″ and “AJAX” now, but remember that five years ago, “push” and channels” were all the rage. Things change fast in these modern times, and your medium — and revenue sources — may transform to something else entirely before you know it. Be ready to react.
Glo often refers to herself as a tech-ignoramus for being such a novice in the blogosphere. A dear friend based in Germany lured her into the wonderful world of blogging a year ago, mainly for better tracking on each other’s lives. But blogging awakened in her a long-forgotten passion which is writing.
Glo is originally from Gubat, Sorsogon and came to Los Baños in 1989 to study Chemistry. She never got to leave LB since then. At present, Glo is a proud single-mom to Raine (Rainier Brando: born 29 December 2002), a task she juggles with being a Researcher but has already resigned from her work to become a fulltime problogger this month.
- How would you define problogging?
When you are earning because of blogging. Otherwise, blogging is a hobby or a passion that is being pursued.
- When did you start blogging? When did you get into problogging and how did you realize that there’s some money to be had from it?
I started blogging sometime in August/September 2004. A year after, august 2005 i started a blog under one network. That’s when i realized that you can earn from it through advertisement and affiliates.
- Which blogs are you writing for and which blog networks are you affiliated with?
Currently, I blog for the following:
Know More Media: The Pharm Voice
Creative Weblogging: Straight From The Doc
B5media: Filipina Soul
- Are you problogging part time or full time? Do you see this career as a part time gig or you are looking into going fulltime problogging?
Starting next month (April 2006), I’ll be problogging full time. If you are a risk taker and has bumped into the right network that really pays big time and on a fixed monthly payment scheme, then you can say that problogging can be a career.
- How do you monetize your blog? Which ones bring in the most revenues?
I have Adsense and some affiliate on my personal blog but it’s hardly earning. Well, if you consider 0.01 cents per month. On the networks that I am blogging, I get monthly fixed payment.
- What are the requirements to go into problogging for a network? Flat fee or profit sharing? How much is the salary range?
Depending on the network, most common is revenue/profit sharing but the really big ones give monthly fixed payment. I am not allowed to divulge the exact rate let’s just say that the range is $200-1,000 USD per month (per blog).
- How much time do you spend on problogging?
Average, 4 hours a day currently. But that may change soon when i go full time.
- What other benefits do you get from problogging?
The only thing i could think of is that because I reside in the Philippines, what i currently earn may not be enough to sustain a family if i were based in Europe or US, but because I live in the Phils, the amount I get is always times 50 so i guess that’s the advantage. It’s not the only reason but problogging gave me enough “strength” to quit my current regular job.
- What’s the most significant event/moment you had in your entire problogging career?
The most significant event was being connected with Creative Weblogging because it paved the way to getting another big science blogging gig.
- What personal tips can you share with bloggers who want to try out problogging?
I feel that I am not in the position to give any peronal tips on problogging. I just happen to be at the right place at the right time. Knowing the right people helped a lot beacuse they lead me to the networks where there’s money. But of course, you have to be equipped too with the right blogging/writing knowledge.
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