DATE OF COVERAGE in SSS is the Date (Month and Year) set by SSS as the start of your SSS membership.
It is NOT the date when you got your SSS number.
FOR EMPLOYEES:
If your first contribution to SSS was as Employee,
your Date of Coverage (DOC) is the Month and Year you first worked for your first employer that reported you to the SSS.
FOR SELF-EMPLOYED:
If your first contribution to SSS was as Self-Employed, your DOC is the Month and Year of your first valid contribution to SSS as Self-Employed.
Your first contribution is valid if you registered as Self-Employed using SSS RS-1 Form and this form was approved, stamped and signed by SSS.
FOR OFWs:
If your first contribution to SSS was as OFW, your DOC is the Month and Year of your first contribution to SSS as OFW.
If you were not Employed, Self-Employed or Non-Working Spouse before becoming an OFW, you should first submit to SSS an accomplished SSS OW-1 Form before making your first contribution as OFW.
FOR NON-WORKING SPOUSE:
If you registered as Non-Working Spouse, your DOC is the Month and Year of your first contribution to SSS as Non-Working Spouse.
FOR VOLUNTARY MEMBERS:
If your FIRST contribution to SSS was as Voluntary, your first contribution is INVALID.
The cashier accepted your payment because she did not know it was your first payment to SSS as Voluntary. SSS cashiers do not check whether you have or do not have previous valid contributions.
You must FIRST register and pay as Employed, or Self-Employed, or OFW, or Non-Working Spouse before becoming Voluntary later on.
FOR EMPLOYERS:
Your Date of Coverage is the date when you started your operation. It is the date when your first employee or first employees started working. In your SSS Employer Registration form, you will write the date of your "Start of Operation". In the same form, after the SSS receives your form, SSS will write your "Date of Coverage."
Your Date of Coverage is the date when you started your operation. It is the date when your first employee or first employees started working. In your SSS Employer Registration form, you will write the date of your "Start of Operation". In the same form, after the SSS receives your form, SSS will write your "Date of Coverage."
Remember that you should register with SSS your employees within the first 30 days of their employment. Require your prospective employees or job applicants to have their SSS number during application so you won't encounter problems in case these applicants have problems with their birth or baptismal certificates.
Yes, Date of Coverage (DOC) is very important. You WILL NOT be able to get any SSS benefit, even your pension, if you do not have a Date of Coverage.
If you have a Date of Coverage, it means that you registered with SSS correctly and properly and that SSS approved your membership.
- You visit the nearest SSS with your ID and ask your DOC. Many branches ask you to fill up a verification form to present to the SSS officer.
- or You enroll in SSS Online service so you can see your Date of Coverage.
When Can I Apply for my SSS ID?
How to Register with SSS as Self-Employed
Is Date of Coverage important?
Yes, Date of Coverage (DOC) is very important. You WILL NOT be able to get any SSS benefit, even your pension, if you do not have a Date of Coverage.
If you have a Date of Coverage, it means that you registered with SSS correctly and properly and that SSS approved your membership.
How Can I Know if I have a Date of Coverage (DOC)?
Two ways:- You visit the nearest SSS with your ID and ask your DOC. Many branches ask you to fill up a verification form to present to the SSS officer.
- or You enroll in SSS Online service so you can see your Date of Coverage.
When Can I Apply for my SSS ID?
How to Register with SSS as Self-Employed
Enroll in SSS online service. After your enrollment is processed, login, click Member Info and you'll see your Date of Coverage near your name and date of birth.
Asikasuhin mo ito asap kasi wala kang pension or other benefits kung wala kang date of coverage.
yong R1 nio or first R-1A.
Kung registered ka na, at wala ka pa ring DOC, kagaya pa rin siguro ng dati na you need to wait for around 3 months and pay 3 monthly contributions before you are given a DOC
saan po yun mkukuha. sa office din ba ng sss? . tsaka po .hndi po cya ngbbyad ng sss nya . madam nya phu hndi cya gnwa employee. . bsta hinulugan lg nya po...
Thanks.
Good that you have that form already. Next time you pay, for example sa Bayad Center, check OFW. Yong Date of Coverage, ipo-post nila siguro after 3 to 5 payments. Based on many people commenting that they don't have yet their Date of Coverage, hindi agad napo-post ang Date of Coverage -- it takes time. Keep your receipts and his OFW registration form.
What this means then? You submit your retirement application documents at any branch that you like. Many SSS branches now use the dropbox system. You put all the required documents (xerox copies only) inside a brown envelope, label the envelope with your complete name, the word "Retirement" and your phone number, then put into the dropbox of any SSS branch. Wait for a text from SSS for your next appointment -- bring your original docs.
If you never submitted a form before you made your first payment, find proofs of your business or source of income during your first year of contributions, and go to SSS (check walk-in or appointment rules of your branch) and request to have a date of coverage.
And now, after ko po maghulog for another 2months in advance, nakaregister na po ako online. I was planning to apply for umid po sana, but im afraid na di pa matanggap application ko for umid because I'm not sure if I already have Date of Coverage. I checked my online account, and nakalagay parin po duon is prior registrant and no date of coverage pa po (however i can register online despite those errors I encountered like no doc and membership status before).
Does it mean na kelangan ko pa po ba maghintay ng date of coverage and maaprove yung application ko for self employment in order to apply for umid? I applied po last December 10.
Late lang po ba magreflect yung update sa website? Should I go to sss branch to apply for my umid? Ok naman din po sa mobile app, sa website lang po kasi yung di pa nauupdate, hanggang ngayon po halos blangko pa po.
And also, follow up question lang po, if ever I apply for UMID, can I also request for Umid Certificate at the same time?