To receive such a hefty amount is an insult to all hard-working Filipino workers whose only hope for retirement relief is the miniscule benefit from the SSS.

On top of the fact that the SSS Commissioners even successfully lobbied President Noynoy Aquino to increase employees contribution by 0.6 percent, this additional burden the SSS Commissioner has forced upon us shall worsen the budgetary limits of our families as you wallow on perks we have diligently worked hard and sacrificed for.

Our salaries are already below the family living wage which the Constitution mandates and yet you fatten yourselves on the starvation wages we live on.

We cannot allow this to happen, as ordinary wage-earners, we demand that the Commissioners return the amount received, increase benefits and discontinue the recently approved .6% additional premium.