From left: Director Rolly Francia, Arnel Ignacio, and Tuesday Niu
This Saturday, "Oh My Job!" will feature Director Stella Zipagan-Banawis, Executive Director of the Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC), who will shed light on the topic concerning claims of workers who contracted COVID-19.
OVER 46,000 govern-ment workers who were infected with Covid-19 availed themselves of employees’ compensation (EC) benefits. In a statement, the Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) disclosed it released over P218 million to the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) to release the said claims for the state employees from 2020 to January 2022. Aside…
MANILA - More than PHP541 million in financial assistance have been paid by the Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC) to its pensioners nationwide since its establishment in June 2021. ECC Executive Director Stella Zipagan-Banawis said PHP541,440,000 were divided among 27,072 EC pensioners, who received PHP20,000 each. "ECC considered our pensioners in the provision of assistance as they have also been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic because of their vulnerabilities and the prolonged economic impact brought by the pandemic," she said in a recent statement. The pensioners are persons with permanent partial disability or permanent total disability, incurred due to their work or working environment. They can also be the beneficiaries of the employees who died due to work-related contingencies during the prescribed period Jan. 1, 2020 to May 31, 2021. The financial assistance was released by the Social Security System and the Government Service Insurance System, the impl
MANILA - More than 81,000 employees' compensation (EC) claims in relation to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have been processed by the Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC). The claims were processed through the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) for state workers and Social Security System (SSS) for private sector employees, ECC Executive Director, Stella Zipagan-Banawis, said during the Laging Handa briefing on Saturday. "At ECC, we have already processed more than 24,000 cash assistance of PHP10,000 or PHP15,000, depending on what happened to them," she added. Those infected or had an RT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) positive result will get PHP10,000 while PHP15,000 will go to the kin if death was due to Covid-19. "Your Covid-19 experience or illness does not need to be severe. As long as you test positive for antigen or RT-PCR, you can claim an EC benefit," Banawis added. The EC benefit can be claimed even if