Guide on the Requirements for SSS Employees Compensation (EC) Benefit for Members
SSS EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION REQUIREMENTS – You can check the list below for the documents needed in filing a claim for EC Program.
Millions of Filipinos are members of the Social Security System (SSS), one of the biggest state-run social insurance agency in the country. Most of its members are private company employees but there are also self-employed individuals and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are members of the state-run social insurance agency.
Furthermore, the SSS also accepts voluntary memberships provided that the applicant meets the eligibility criteria. To keep an up-to-date account, the SSS members must regularly post a monthly contribution.
The SSS members who have active and updated accounts and have accumulated monthly contributions may qualify for the benefits and loans offered by the state-run social insurance agency.
One of the offers of the Social Security System is the Employees’ Compensation Program. It is more popularly called the EC Program. It was crafted to financially assist the private company employee-members who meet an accident in line of their work.
The EC program covers sickness, disability, and death that occured in line with work. Here are the SSS Employees Compensation requirements based on the condition:
For Sickness:
- Certificate of Employment signed by the employer or his/her authorized representative including description of actual duties and responsibilities performed by the worker at the time of the contingency.
- pre-employment medical check-up done by the company; or
- certification by the company that the worker is physically fit when hired
- Certified true copy of the page of the company logbook containing the entry for the particular sickness or accident
- Medical findings of the attending doctor or the hospital records
For Injury:
- Certificate of Employment signed by the employer or his/her authorized representative including description of actual duties and responsibilities performed by the worker at the time of the contingency.
- If the accident happened inside the company’s premises, submit an accident report signed by the worker’s immediate supervisor and by the human resource officer;
- If the accident happened outside the premises of the company, submit a police report
- Certified true copy of the page of the company logbook containing the entry for the particular sickness or accident
- Medical findings of the attending doctor or the hospital records
For Death:
- Certificate of Employment signed by the employer or his/her authorized representative including description of actual duties and responsibilities performed by the worker at the time of the contingency.
- Death Certificate
- Marriage Contract
- Birth Certificate of the Deceased Worker if single
- Birth Certificate of children below 21 years old
- Certified true copy of the page of the company logbook containing the entry for the particular sickness or accident
- Medical findings of the attending doctor or the hospital records
The filing of the SSS Employees Compensation requirements must be made within three (3) years since the sickness/injury/death occured in line with the SSS member’s work.
The Social Security System (SSS) has several other benefit offers for its members. Each has a different set of documentary requirements:
- Requirements for SSS Maternity Benefit For Pregnant Member
- Requirements for SSS Sickness Benefit Claim
- Requirements for SSS Disability Benefit Claim
- Requirements for SSS Death Benefit
- Requirements for SSS Funeral Benefit Claim Application
- Requirements for SSS Unemployment Benefit Claim Application
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