Sun Life’s Financial Resilience Index 2026 highlights growing financial pressure among Filipinos as Financial Independence Month begins

With 95% of Filipinos saying inflation has made it harder to cover monthly expenses, the findings highlight how cost pressures are influencing both financial behavior and mindset.  Essential expenses such as utilities (99%), transportation fuel and groceries (98%), cooking fuel (97%), and healthcare (95%) are driving this strain.

Things Only Financially Independent Millennials Can Relate to

Although millennials sometimes get an undeserved bad rap, this generation, in fact, displays high levels of maturity and responsibility—they’re socially aware, financially conscious, and tech-savvy.