GSIS to resume payment of survivorship pension

Beneficiaries of Government Service Insurance System members who qualified for the survivorship pension will start receiving the pension due them soon after submission of documentation requirements, the GSIS said on Wednesday.

 

The GSIS said it will resume payment of the survivorship benefit after the Employees Compensation Commission “resolved to lift the suspension of its payment beyond the five-year guaranteed period.”

 

GSIS President and General Manager Robert Vergara was quoted as saying in a news release that “qualified EC survivors whose pension has been stopped as of August 2012 and those who should be receiving their pension beginning August 2012, will benefit from the ECC resolution.”

 

The survivorship pension is GSIS members who died from work-connected accident, disease, or disability.

 

“In letters sent recently to EC survivorship pensioners, GSIS requires surviving legitimate spouses (of deceased EC pensioners) to submit a certificate of no marriage (CENOMAR) issued by the National Statistics Office, stressing that the ECC board resolution disqualifies them from the benefit if they remarried,” the GSIS also said in the news release.

 

Pensioners who qualified will be asked to get the GSIS eCard “through which their monthly pension will be credited, after the GSIS has created their pension records.”

 

The GSIS also reminded pensioners to bring two valid government-issued identification cards and a copy of the letter from the GSIS when they apply and submit the documentation requirements.  — ELR, GMA News