Requirements for GSIS Survivorship Benefit Claim Application — Here’s a Guide…

Guide on the Requirements for GSIS Survivorship Benefit Claim Application

REQUIREMENTS FOR GSIS SURVIVORSHIP BENEFIT – Here are the eligibility criteria and the documents needed under the GSIS Survivorship Benefit.

The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is one of the government entities with a huge member population. Most of its members are individuals who are former government employees and those who are currently working in the government and the private sector.

Undeniably, if you are a GSIS member, you are not only securing your own self and future but as well as that of your loved ones. It offers several benefits and loans that will not only benefit but member but as well as his/her family and loved ones.

The government agency crafted different lists of mandated documents under its benefit offers such as the requirements for GSIS Unemployment Benefit, requirements for GSIS Disability Benefit Claim, GSIS Funeral Claim Requirements, and the requirements for the GSIS Survivorship Benefit claim.

The GSIS Survivorship Benefit was crafted for the dependents of a GSIS member who died. Its usual recipient are the spouses and the children of a GSIS member who died.

The Government Service Insurance System has set eligibility requirements for GSIS Survivorship Benefit. To qualify for the benefit offer, the claimant must be a primary or secondary beneficiary of a deceased GSIS member residing in the Philippines. Here is the order of the beneficiaries:

• Primary Beneficiaries:
  • Legitimate spouse until he/she marries again, co-habits or engages in a common-law relationship
  • Legitimate, legally adopted or legitimated children, and illegitimate children of the deceased GSIS member who are minors or have reached the age of majority but still incapable of self-support

• Secondary Beneficiaries:
  • Parents of the GSIS member

The secondary beneficiaries will only be entitled to the survivorship benefit if there are no primary beneficiaries or the deceased GSIS member died single and has no children. If there are children, the granting of the GSIS Survivorship Benefit will depend on the restrictions set by the children of the deceased GSIS member.

There are documentary requirements for the GSIS Survivorship Benefit claim and it depends on the civil status of the deceased GSIS member:

If the deceased is Married:

• duly-accomplished GSIS Survivorship Application Form
• Certification by agency/employer as to whether the deceased has a pending administrative/criminal case
• Death certificate of member/pensioner issued by the National Statistics Office (NSO)
• Last Day of Actual Service
• Two (2) valid IDs of payees
• Marriage certificate between the deceased and his/her spouse issued by NSO
• Affidavit of Surviving spouse
• If spouse is not a GSIS member, Birth Certificate issued by NSO
• Birth Certificate/s of minor/incapacitated children issued by NSO
• If with minor/incapacitated children, Affidavit of Guardianship
• If the legal guardian is not the natural parent, the affidavit should be supported by a Certification from the Barangay and DSWD

If the deceased is Single:

• duly-accomplished GSIS Survivorship Application Form
• Certification by agency/employer as to whether the deceased has a pending administrative/criminal case
• Death certificate of member/pensioner issued by the National Statistics Office (NSO)
• Last Day of Actual Service
• Two (2) valid IDs of payees
• If with minor/incapacitated children, Affidavit of Guardianship
• If the legal guardian is not the natural parent, the affidavit should be supported by a Certification from the Barangay and DSWD; and
• If guardian is not a GSIS member, Birth Certificate issued by NSO

If the deceased has no Primary Beneficiary but With Parents

• duly-accomplished GSIS Survivorship Application Form
• Certification by agency/employer as to whether the deceased has a pending administrative/criminal case
• Death certificate of member/pensioner issued by the National Statistics Office (NSO)
• Last Day of Actual Service
• Two (2) valid IDs of payees
• Birth Certificate of member issued by NSO
• Marriage Contract of member’s parents issued by NSO
• Birth Certificate of member’s parents issued by NSO if parents are not GSIS members/pensioners

If the deceased has no Primary Beneficiary and Parents but with Siblings

• duly-accomplished GSIS Survivorship Application Form
• Certification by agency/employer as to whether the deceased has a pending administrative/criminal case
• Death certificate of member/pensioner issued by the National Statistics Office (NSO)
• Last Day of Actual Service
• Two (2) valid IDs of payees
• Birth Certificate of member issued by NSO
• Marriage Contract of member’s parents issued by NSO
• Death Certificates of member’s parents issued by NSO
• Birth Certificate of member’s parents issued by NSO
• Affidavit of Surviving Legal Heirs stating among others that affiants are the only surviving legal heirs of the deceased member, their date of birth and relationship to the deceased member and that they are executing the document for the purpose of claiming the benefit from GSIS
• Birth Certificate of all the siblings of the deceased member issued by NSO
• Marriage Contract of all the female siblings of the deceased member issued by NSO
• If with deceased brother or sister, extra judicial settlement among the legal heirs of the deceased brother / sister of the member designating one payee

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