More and more legislators should come to the rescue and amend the law that retirement age begins at 60 and that for government a minimum of 15 years of service. May I call on Senator Chiz Escudero to pioneer a bill that will decrease the age limit to 55 and a minimum of 10 year service for government employees to avail of the GSIS pension plan.
Why 55 years old? Only the elderly can fully fathom why but you need not be 55 or 60 years old to empathize with our plight. A signature campaign seems to be in order. Why at least 10 years? Anyone who has worked for quite sometime and is 50 and above can identify with this lonely scenario. At least beyond 55 you can still travel and move quickly and have some money to use for travel or venture into something different. Why GSIS? Government Service Insurance System for government employees and SSS ( Social Security System) for employees in the private sector serve as the last chance to receive a lump sum and pension for retirement age and have some money for medicine and other needs.
The above mentioned situation is one of the causes of the elderly employees' Monday blues, daily blues. Why? We are physically exhausted to wake up early in the morning for our bodies need leisurely time to greet the day. Our sleeping time is no longer in the evening bur dawn hours so to wake up at 6:30 A.M. is almost impossible when we just slept at 2:00 or 3:00 A.M. How should we cope? Your answer is as good as mine but a law that will allow us to retire as suggested earlier will make all these blues go away for we will then be spared the rigors of working. Senator Chiz SOS!!!
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