Employee Compensation and State Insurance Fund

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While one could only hope for the best, it is a fact that life has full of uncertainties. This is why
we always try to secure our future and our familys as well. We try to be ready to what may
happen, in case we get sick or be in an accident while we are at work.
We, however, do not have to carry the entire burden. The Employees Compensation and State
Insurance Fund, as provided under Presidential Decree No. 626, is another security blanket for
the working class. The EC Fund for government employees is administered by the GSIS.
The employees' compensation benefits or disability benefits is a compensation package
for public and private sector employees and their dependents in the event of work-
related injury, sickness, disability or death.
The EC is a purely employer-based contribution benefit. Thus, the employee does not contribute
any amount to the program.
Benefits under the EC are in the form of income or services, and consist of the following:
1. Medical services, appliances and supplies;
2. Rehabilitation services;
3. Temporary total disability benefit;
4. Permanent total disability benefit;
5. Permanent partial disability benefit;
6. Death benefit; and
7. Funeral Benefit
In case of death and funeral benefits, the beneficiaries may either be one of the following:
1. Primary
1. Your legitimate spouse until he or she remarries
2. Your dependent children (legitimate, legitimated or adopted, and illegitimate):
1. Below 18 years old, unmarried, not gainfully employed; or
2. More than 18 years old but incapacitated and incapable of self-support due to
mental or physical defect acquired prior to age of majority.
2. Secondary
1. Your dependent parents
2. Your legitimate descendants
To be more specific, the benefits given to the employee or his beneficiaries are in the form of:
1. Daily cash income benefit for temporary total disability (TTD);
2. Monthly cash income benefit for permanent total disability (PTD) on a lifetime basis;
3. Monthly cash income benefit for permanent partial disability (PPD);
4. 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;
5. Medical services, appliances and supplies for injury or sickness;
6. Rehabilitation services for permanent disability; and
7. Carer's allowance for permanent disability.
8. Funeral benefit of P3,000 to be paid upon the death of a covered employee or permanently
totally disabled pensioner to one of the following:
1. A surviving spouse;
2. The legitimate child who spent for the funeral services; or
3. Any other person who can show unquestionable proof or proof of his having borne the
funeral expenses (ECC Resolution No. 3682, July 21, 1987.

The Compensability Conditions are as follows:
1. Injury must be the result of accident arising out of and in the course of employment
2. Sickness must be listed /considered an "occupational disease"; or even if not listed as one, it
must be shown that the risk of contracting the sickness is increased by the working conditions
3. Disability/Death is caused by work-connected injury or sickness
Exceptions to Compensability or injury, sickness, disability or death
When any of these is due to the employee's:
1. Intoxication or drunkenness
2. Willful intention to injure or kill himself or another
3. Notorious negligence
4. Not work-related
List of Occupational Diseases (under PD626)
1. Papilloma of the bladder
2. Cancer, epithellomatous or ulceration of the skin or of the
corneal surface of the eye
3. Cataract
4. Deafness
5. Decompression sickness
Caisson disease
Aeroembolism
6. Dermatitis due to irritants and sensitizers
7. Infections: Anthrax, Brucellosis, Glanders, Rabies, Tuberculosis, Tularemia, Weill's disease, Q
Fever or equine encephalomyelitis, Mite dermatitis
8. Ionizing radiation disease, inflammation, ulceration or malignant disease of the skin or
subcutaneous tissues of the bones or leukemia or anemia of the aplastic type due to X-rays,
ionizing particles, radium or other radioactive substances Acute radiation syndrome: Chronic
radiation syndrome and Glass blower's cataract.
9. Poisoning
10. Pneumoconiosis
11. Diseases caused by abnormalities in temperature and humidity
12. Vascular disturbance in the upper extremities due to continuous vibration from pneumatic tools
or power drills, riveting machines or hammers
13. Viral hepatitis
14. Poisoning by cadmium
15. Leukemia and lymphoma
16. Cancer of the stomach and other lymphatic and blood forming vessels, nasal cavities and sinuses
17. Cancer of the lungs, liver and brain
18. Cardio-vascular diseases
19. Cerebro-vascular accidents
20. Malaria and schistosomiasis
21. Pneumonia
22. Hernia
23. Bronchial asthma
24. Osteoarthritis
25. Viral encephalitis
26. Peptic ulcer
27. Pulmonary tuberculosis
28. Viral hepatitis
29. Essential hypertension
30. Asbestosis
No claim for compensation shall be given due course unless said claim is filed with the GSIS within 3
years from the time the cause of action accrued. (ECC Resolution No. 2799, July 25, 1984)