it's easier to have a loan

A colleague just got his checque from the SSS this morning. Funny, because I was thinking that it's easier to file a salary loan and have it approved by SSS than for me to get my maternity benefit from them. I asked him as to when he applied for the loan and he confirmed that he did it last week. Imagine, I was correct.

It's really easier to get a loan approved and to get your checque from SSS than for me to have my maternity benefit. They were asking for a lot of documents which are not even in the list of requirements for me to get my maternity pay from them. What's odd is that, to file a salary loan, you don't have to do it personally. All you have to do is to fill out the forms, sign them, and let your company representative do everything for you. Unlike in my case, I was asked to personally submit my documents and even appear for an interview with the doctor from the SSS.

How hard could they make things for me? Why do they have to ask for some documents not listed in the requirements? I just can't buy the reason that there are members who committed fraud with SSS that's why they ask for extra papers to be submitted. It's not my fault that they were fooled by other people that's why they're being so strict with me. It's not my fault also that my miscarriage occurred when I wasn't employed, thus, no company HR will be able to process the documents for me.

I hope that this will be resolved the soonest possible time. I just can't ignore what has been happening. This is too much of a worry for me. I've been a law abiding citizen since God knows when and I have always been supportive of the government. I may have had some issues with the previous administration but I had always believed in the government as a whole.

I hope that it will not take ages before they finally give me my most deserved maternity benefit. I am giving this a month more, and if nothing happens I think I will have to bring this to the Ombudsman. I don't deserve this kind of treatment. No one deserves this...

this time I will win

Why do they have to make things difficult for me? All I am asking for is to get my maternity benefit. Is it not my right as a member of the organization?

What's wrong with them? Why do they even have to suspect that what happened to me was not a misfortune but planned?

I never wanted to have a miscarriage. Since the start of the year, my spouse and I have tried our best to conceive. We wanted to have a second baby so bad that I even nag him whenever I have my monthly period then. That is because I didn't want to have my monthly period at that time and wanted to get pregnant as soon as possible. How can they be so cruel?

Why do they have to deny me of my maternity benefit? Why do they have to insist that there should have been a histopath and then conclude that I must have had an abortion that's why I don't have that document.

How the h*ll will I know that I needed that document to get a maternity benefit? In the first place, I never expected that my second pregnancy will result to a miscarriage. For quite some time, I believed that I will be giving birth to a healthy baby girl come February or March 2009. Nobody in the family wanted to lose our most awaited baby girl, specially me. I even had a name for her in as early as two years ago.

I don't remember the last time I cried because of this miscarriage. But now, I can't help it. I tried to be strong and take what happens as a challenge. Yet, I can't deny that this brings back the pain in my heart. I am so hurt thinking that I lost my baby no matter how we tried to save her. Then now what? Some people in the government who know nothing but graft and corruption will have the guts to think that I will lie about my miscarriage.

God forgive me. May those people be spared from the sufferings in life like the ones I had to go through. May they find it in their heart to believe that a miscarriage is so painful. There's no need for anyone to make up such a story for the amount of P30,000.00. I'd tell you, I will give anyone all the money in the world if I can only have my baby back.

I did not complain when SSS asked me too many documents after I delivered Boris before. I knew I was entitled to my maternity benefit then but I did not push for it because what is important is that I have our Boris. It's just that this time, I did not even have the chance to hug my little baby to compensate for all the troubles that I had to deal with. My spouse and I are in debt after the medicines and hospitalization. That maternity benefit is supposed to pay our debts. There's no way that they will be denying me that.

I don't know what to do any more. I can't think well. All I know is that, I can't and will not allow SSS to give me so much pain and agony. I will fight this battle and will do everything to win this time. Enough of their silly ways. I did not become a student of my alma mater for nothing.

If this has to be a tough battle, so be it. God will help me win this, I know...



you can open this link to see if SSS is asking for histopath anywhere in the requirements to reimburse your maternity benefit after a miscarriage/ abortion/pregnancy:
http://www.gov.ph/download/sss/mat2.pdf