{"id":13513,"date":"2025-05-03T03:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=13513"},"modified":"2025-05-03T03:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:51:27","slug":"govt-to-lower-sss-loan-interest-rates-starting-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/govt-to-lower-sss-loan-interest-rates-starting-july-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"GOV\u2019T TO LOWER SSS LOAN INTEREST RATES STARTING JULY 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE government will lower interest rates for Social Security System (SSS) loans starting July 2025, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. announced<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The President said the move is part of a broader push to strengthen worker protection and financial security.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>It also aims to ease Filipinos\u2019 financial burden and help reduce poverty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>President<\/strong> <strong>Marcos revealed during a Labor Day address that SSS members with good standing will see interest rates drop to 8% for salary loans and 7% for calamity loans, down from the current 10%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Nais nating tiyakin ang inyong kapakanan hindi lamang sa ngayon kungdi sa pangmatagalan,&#8221; Marcos said at an event honoring outstanding Filipino workers at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The government will also launch an expanded Pension Loan Program in September allowing surviving spouses of deceased pensioners to borrow up to P150,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE government will lower interest rates for Social Security System (SSS) loans starting July 2025, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. announced. The President said the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13515,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13513\/revisions\/13515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}