Campaign For Filipino Teachers and all Government Employees

Our Stand: A Genuine GSIS for Government Employees

As an institution, the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is supposedly catering to the needs of its members, acting as the ever-dependable helping hand when times are tough.

As GSIS members coming from various government institutions, we can no longer stand silently as our rights are violated by the commission and omission of a government agency entrusted to safeguard the hard-earned contributions of government workers.

With the assumption of PGM Winston Garcia to GSIS, our contributions are denied from us, if not outrightly withheld through nefarious policy pronouncements and program adjustments such as Board Resolution No. 219 and Board Resolution No. 188 that run counter to the spirit and intent of RA 8291.

These programs and resolutions have replaced the Life Endowment Policy (LEP) with the Enhanced Life Policy (ELP) doing away with benefits like Total Permanent Disability, Policy Maturity, Accidental Death Benefits, Cash Surrender Value as well as the implementation of Claims and Loan Independent Policy (CLIP) that can ‘clip the benefits’ of the unsuspecting!

Enough is Enough!

Thus, we stand for the following demands:

• Stop all unjust deductions from members of interest and surcharges due to institutional lapses or under-remittance of government agencies to GSIS.

• That said lapses in remittance by institutions like the DBM and DepEd be not taken from members’ funds.

• That all undue hardship in the procurement of pension for retirees as well as all unjust and questionable deductions from retirement benefits be stopped immediately.

• Stop the continuous deduction from members with cancelled and foreclosed housing loans.

• Implement and/or apply the options afforded by Republic Act 6552 otherwise known as Realty Act or more popularly known as Maceda Law to members who could no longer afford to pay their housing loans.

• Junk the Premium Based Policy of Winston Garcia!

• Implement correctly the one grade promotion upon retirement as stated in the Magna for Public School Teachers (RA 4670).

• Restoration of the 16% annual increase in pensions of all retirees.

• Call for an immediate Congressional Inquiry on the continued violation of DBM, DepEd, GSIS/ Winston Garcia and other agencies of the provisions of RA 8291 and RA 4670.

• Conduct a comprehensive AUDIT and ACCOUNTING of GSIS financial transactions and prosecution of liable parties to the fullest extent of the law.

• Create a competent and speedy reconciliation of membership records from the GSIS.

• Remove PGM Winston Garcia and his incumbent Board of Trustees and depoliticize the selection process in the appointment of Board of trustees of the GSIS.