For the fourth time since this pandemic I have to go out again yesterday to get an additional form for mom’s renewal of her Social Security survivor’s pension since it is nearing January 16 which is the date of Dad’s birth.
I was able to contact SSS Cainta branch manager via e-mail. According to him, their branch is already closed since November last year. I have to go to another branch to get the non-remarriage/no co-habitation form, an additional requirement. Mom could no longer write her name so I bought a stampad ink months ago for her thumb marks.
I e-mailed everything, such gargantuan requirements. SSS just want to make sure that the pensioner is still alive.
Speaking of booster shots, I am in a quandary whether to get one. According to a friend whose son lives in Saudi Arabia, they are on their second booster there. Would this be endless meantime that it is in experimental stage? We had about more than 5,000 positive cases yesterday and according to our health department, there are already 7 cases of the Omicron variant. Sometimes, their reports are no longer believable.
Right now, I am on my third book. I joined the 2022 Godreads Reading Challenge. Yeay for 150 books.
Dreams And Escapes 
Official administration is so cumbersome
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Yes, they actually rejected it today because they could not read the date of the newspaper she was holding yesterday as proof that she is still alive. They further said that I did not submit the IDs of two witnesses in her thumb mark. This was not included in their original requirements. As for the picture, they didn’t enlarge it so I have to send a new one. It was a hassle indeed.
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You are doing a wonderful job looking after you mum … and in these pandemic everything we do seems to have tasks attached..
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Thank you Ivor🙂
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We have hundreds of thousands of Omicron cases in the UK. So far, it is not as severe as other strains though.
Best wishes, Pet.
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