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SSS Advisory: Website downtime due to SWBS application traffic

The Social Security System (SSS) apologized for the downtime of its website last Sunday. Due to the surge of online applications for the Small Business Wage Subsidy (SBWS) program, the website surpassed its capacity. In an advisory, the agency stated that the website has been down since Saturday, April 18, 2020. “While we expected higher online traffic due to the launch of the Small Business Wage Subsidy (SBWS), the overwhelming response to this program surpassed the computing capacity of the system,” the statement reads. “We are urgently updating our site capacity to accommodate this surge,” it added. Recently, SSS, together with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), launched the SBWS program—a P51-billion wage subsidy program covering some 3.4 million workers employed by some 1.5 million small businesses affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. Qualified workers for the SBWS program will receive a wage subsidy of P5,000 to P8,000, based on the monthly regional minimum wage.  
READ MORE: HOW TO avail the Small Business Wage Subsidy Program
  In the meantime, SSS said it will be “sending out emails for alternative application arrangments to SBWS-eligible employers whose email addresses are on file and have been deemed compliant with both BIR and SSS regulations.” They also assure to inform the public as soon as the website is back and operational.     (Update) SSS Website is now available. Click here to visit   —(Source: Social Security System)

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