The state-run Social Security System (SSS) announced that its pensioners received their regular monthly pensions for April earlier than usual, and it will be credited in their bank accounts starting March 23.

“We allowed the early release of their monthly pension to provide them with some financial assistance. It will help our pensioners cope with the situation that the country is facing right now brought by the dreadful coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19),” SSS President and Chief Executive Officer Aurora Ignacio said.