Guide on GSIS Employees Compensation Benefits for Members/Beneficiaries
GSIS EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION BENEFITS – Here is a list of the benefits that members or beneficiaries may claim from the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS).
Most public and private sector offices in the Philippines mandate their employees for a membership to a state-run social insurance institution. In the case of government employees, the public offices require for a membership to the Government Service Insurance System or more popularly called GSIS.
The membership to the state run social insurance institutions undeniably widens the resources of the members. In the case of the GSIS members, one of the offers is the Employees Compensation Insurance Fund or the ECIF.
The ECIF is also called the State Insurance Fund. It provides financial assistance for the sickness, disability, and death of a GSIS member working in the public and private sector. The sickness, disability, or death must due to a disease or accident that occured out of or in the course of work.
The requirements are on different sets depending on the specific claim that the member wants to apply for — GSIS Employees Compensation Sickness Benefit Requirements, GSIS Employees Compensation Disability Benefit Requirements, and GSIS Employees Compensation Death Benefit Requirements for Claim.
With regards to the benefits, here are the GSIS Employees Compensation benefits for members who will apply for a sickness, injury, or disability claim:
- Daily cash income benefit for temporary total disability (TTD)
- Monthly cash income benefit for permanent partial disability (PPD)
- Monthly cash income benefit for permanent total disability (PTD) on a lifetime basis
- Monthly cash income benefit for death, also on a lifetime basis, except for benefit paid to secondary beneficiaries, which is a monthly pension not to exceed 60 months but not less than fifteen thousand pesos
- Rehabilitation services for permanent disability
- Medical services, appliances and supplies for injury or sickness
- Carer’s allowance for permanent disability
Under the GSIS Employees Compensation Death Benefit, here are the benefits that the beneficiaries may claim:
- Funeral Benefit: P3,000
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has set an order of beneficiaries under the Death Benefit claim:
- a surviving legal spouse
- legitimate child who spent for the funeral services of the deceased member
- any person who can present unquestionable proof of covering the costs of the funeral of the deceased member
The claim must be made within three (3) since the sickness, disability, or death occured for it to be under the validity set by the GSIS.
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