SSS president and chief executive officer Emmanuel Dooc said it is the pension fund’s duty to provide social protection to its members in times of contingencies like the temporary closure of Boracay Island in Aklan which may have displaced some 11,161 SSS members. “At times like this, we would like to show our dear members that the SSS is there whenever they needed help the most,” Dooc said. SSS has allocated some P111.61 million for the Emergency Loan Assistance Program (ELAP).

Boracay workers can tap emergency SSS loan. (2018, May 4). Panay News, p. 4.