Deferring PhilHealth Contribution Increase

Contributions for SSS and PhilHealth are increasing this year. PhilHealth contribution rates will now be 3.5% (from 3.0%) and the income ceiling will now be 70,000 (from 60,000).

The monthly contributions of SSS members will be increased from the current 12% to 13%, employer share will be 8.5% (from 8.0%) and employee share will be 4.5% (from 4.0%), and the minimum and maximum salary credits used for computation will now be 3,000 and 25,000 (from 2,000 and 20,000).

We have already updated Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy to use the 2021 rates. Earlier this week, President Duterte ordered the deferring of the PhilHealth contribution increase and PhilHealth suspended the increase pending law amending the Universal Health Care Act.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/PhilHealthofficial

Sweldong Pinoy in 2020

This year, we have released some new features and other updates to our apps.

Sweldong Pinoy for Self-Employed Individuals

We've added computations for Self-Employed Individuals. You just need to select "Self-Employed Individual" in the employment type and the app will compute the contributions for SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG Fund, tax, and other contributions, and your net pay.

sweldongpinoy.com updated with computations for Self-Employed

Budget Pinoy for Everyone

We have updated Budget Pinoy for Everyone. The web and Android app now has a dropdown for employment type. Users can select their employment type and the app will update the deductions and asking rate accordingly.

Budget Pinoy Android app with Employment Type drop-down

New Thirteenth Month

With the new new Thirteenth Month, users can now input their salaries from January to December to compute their thirteenth month pay. If users have the same salary for the year, they can select "My salary is the same for the whole year" and provide the salary, starting/ending week/month like before. The text fields for the months will be automatically filled up.

You can now provide your salaries per month or select My salary is the same for the whole year

Sweldong Pinoy for 2021/Budget Pinoy for 2021

Sweldong Pinoy and Budget Pinoy were also updated to use the new contribution rates for SSS and PhilHealth starting 2021. In the initial release, we added a dropdown so you can choose the current (2020) or upcoming (2021) rates.

Sweldong Pinoy for 2021

Other Updates

On supported browsers, a share button has been added to the web app for users to share their results.

Sweldong Pinoy Share button; Chrome on Pixel 2

A live chat widget has also been added to the web apps for real-time user support.

Chatra for Sweldong Pinoy

To 2021 and beyond!

Thank you to everyone who uses Sweldong Pinoy and sends us feedback. We're looking forward to adding more features and enhancements to our apps. If you have comments, suggestions, or messages to us, please feel free to contact us by email, Facebook Messenger, or with the Chatra app on our website. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for more updates.

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Originally published at the Sweldong Pinoy Blog

Tigcal Apps and Projects in 2020

Tigcal Apps

I have made some little commits to the Tigcal Apps repository. I have also changed the app icon.

Sweldong Pinoy

A major release for the year is Sweldong Pinoy for Self-Employed Individuals. For 2021, Sweldong Pinoy was also updated to use the new contribution rates for SSS and PhilHealth. On supported browsers, a share button has been added to the web app for users to share their results. A live chat widget has also been added to the web apps for real-time user support.

Budget Pinoy

Budget Pinoy for Everyone: The web and Android app now has a dropdown for employment type. Users can select their employment type and the app will update the deductions and asking rate accordingly.

Thirteenth Month

The new Thirteenth Month app was released. Users can now input their salaries from January to December to compute their thirteenth month pay. If they have the same salary for the year, they can select "My salary is the same for the whole year" and provide the salary, starting/ending week/month like before. The text fields for the months will be automatically filled up.

GDGPH Chrome Extension

A new update to the Google Chrome Extension for Google Developer Group (GDG) Philippines (version 3.1) was released. This included the following: adding events tab to display events from the Meetup Page, updating GDG logo, updating links, and removing blog and video tabs.

GDG Philippines 4.0

After updating the GDGPH Chrome Extension, I spent some time updating the Android app. I migrated the code to Kotlin and used Retrofit, Coroutines, and ViewModel to fetch the events from the Meetup API. Other changes include the Dark Theme and updates to chapter links.

The events tab on a mobile phone: light theme (left) and dark theme (right)