The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has provided relief to members with pending dues amid the one-month Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine, even as another employee fell victim to the COVID-19 disease.
In a statement Wednesday, the state-run pension fund said it was “granting a one-month grace period on all premium remittances, loan payments, housing loan amortizations, and rentals of GSIS real properties.”
This was due to GSIS president and general manager Rolando L. Macasaet’s order to lock down all offices and branches throughout the country.
Macasaet said he “already gave instructions to all GSIS employees nationwide to work from home” because “we do not want to expose our members and employees to any unnecessary risk, most especially our elderly pensioners who are the ones highly vulnerable to the COVID-19.”
Macasaet nonetheless assured continuous remote operations, such that “we will continue to accept loan applications through the GSIS Wireless Automated Processing System (Gwaps) kiosks.”
“We also would like to assure our pensioners that they would receive their pensions on time,” Macasaet added.
According to Macasaet, the GSIS recorded its second employee afflicted with COVID-19.
The male worker at the GSIS main office in Pasay City was currently confined at Las Piñas General Hospital.
The GSIS earlier reported that a female personnel who recently traveled to Japan had been confined at San Juan de Dios Hospital due to the disease.
“We are currently in the process of contact tracing and notifying the persons whom these two employees have had close contact with to self-quarantine,” according to Macasaet.