Updated list of GSIS benefits in the Philippines. GSIS a.k.a. Government Service Insurance System gives and supports amazing benefits to all government employees and members including insurance, retirement, pension, loans, scholarship and many more.
I’m sharing here the complete benefits GSIS offers to its members. I don’t know if they have been discussed to you when you became a member or a beneficiary of the GSIS but I’m sure you will love to know your benefits.
Types of GSIS Members:
- Active Members – government employees at present who are working in any government agency or government office
- Old Age Pensioners – these are retired government employees or officials who are already receiving pension from GSIS
- Survivorship Pensioners – these are beneficiaries or dependents of deceased GSIS member or old age pensioner (example: spouse of a deceased pensioner or member, minor child of the deceased)
Updated List of GSIS Benefits in the Philippines
GSIS Insurance Benefits:
As a member of GSIS maybe you’re wondering what are those stuff such as policy and insurance coverage. There is a reason why you are paying premiums, it’s because you are paying for insurance. With insurance, you or your eligible beneficiaries will be getting benefits. The following are the main types of life insurance benefits you will get from the GSIS:
- Enhanced Life Policy (ELP) – is an enhanced life insurance coverage that gives death benefits to the member’s family or beneficiaries and cash in the form of termination value which you can withdraw upon retirement or separation of service. In a nutshell, with ELP you’ll get Cash Termination Value + death benefits + policy loan + dividends if any. If you entered the government service after July 31, 2003, you are automatically covered with this policy. Members with the old policy called LEP (see below) can also opt for ELP according to GSIS.
- Life Endowment Policy (LEP) – this is known as the old insurance policy offered to members who entered the government service before August 1, 2003. This insurance policy will give maturity benefit + cash surrender value + death benefit + policy loan + dividends if any. If you are under LEP, you can also convert your policy into ELP according to GSIS approval.
GSIS Retirement Benefits:
Maybe you’re wondering too why you are being deducted every month for your GSIS. It is like investing every month. Your GSIS contributions will accumulate and appreciate in value that is why you are receiving dividends when the board made them available depending on the revenue the whole GSIS has earned. You will also be entitled to retirement or pension benefits in the future. The following are the types of retirement plans offered to GSIS members:
- Retirement under RA 8291 (5 year lump sum cash payment or instant pension + monthly pension for life) – this is the most common type of retirement plan and pension chosen by many government retirees in the Philippines because you will get a lump sum amount of money and monthly pension for life. It has 2 options when you avail. To qualify for this retirement plan, you must have rendered at least 15 years of service and must be at least 60 years old upon retirement. Your last 3 years of service must also be continuous.
- Retirement under RA 660 a.k.a. Magic 87 (annuity + lifetime pension) – if your age + years of service = 87, then you can avail of this retirement plan. It offers 3 options: automatic pension, initial 3-year lump sum and 5-year lump sum.
- Retirement under RA 1616 (refund all your GSIS premiums + gratuity payment from employer) – under this option, you must have rendered at least 20 years of service regardless of age and employment status
- Portability Law RA 7699 (Combine your GSIS + SSS CYS) you have the option to combine both your GSIS and SSS creditable years of service to qualify for retirement programs offered by both pension funds
- Retirement under Presidential Decree 1146 (Basic monthly Pension or Cash Payment) – this retirement plan is for those who have been working in the government after May 31, 1977 but before June 24, 1997. You have the option if you want to receive pension every month and cash payment.
GSIS Survivorship Benefits:
These are cash and/or pension benefits provided for the surviving legal spouse (as long as he/she doesn’t remarry), dependent minor children, or incapacitated beneficiary, when a member or a pensioner dies.
GSIS Loans Benefits:
Members of the GSIS also have available loans benefits. However, loans are still loans so I don’t suggest anyone to avail them unless they really need it badly. Loans bear interests payables. Focus on income bearing investments, not loans.
- Consolidated Loan – is also known as Conso-Loan. It is a consolidation of 5 loans into 1 – Salary Loan, Restructured Salary Loan, Enhanced Salary Loan, Emergency Loan Assistance, and Summer One-month Salary Loan. This type of loan is payable in 6 years. It is so easy to apply for this loan, just place your GSIS eCard Plus in the G-W@ps Kiosk and follow through the screen. How much can you avail in this loan? It depends upon your RCS (Record of creditable Service). Check out the data below:
- Policy Loan – since every member in the GSIS is covered with life insurance policy automatically, you also have this policy loan benefit. You can apply for this loan if you have been insured at least one year provided you have updated premium payments and has an active policy. What’s the catch? It bears compounded 8% interest per annum.
- Emergency Loan – this kind of loan is so special because not everyone can avail of this. You have to be a resident of a declared calamity area before you can avail emergency loan. Your place must be declared under “State of Calamity” by the city council and approved by the GSIS Board of Trustees.
GSIS Burial Benefit:
Burial benefits are funeral benefits given to GSIS retiree’s survivors or any person who shouldered the funeral expenses of the deceased GSIS member.
GSIS Disability Benefits:
These are benefits resulting from disability or incapacity to work because of physical or mental injury, impairment or disease. GSIS assigns medical evaluator for members who avail disability benefits.
GSIS EC Benefits:
It is also known as Employee’s Compensation benefit. It is another disability benefit provided for public and private sector workers and their dependents in the event of work-related injury, sickness, disability or death.
Housing:
Their acquired assets are available for cash basis and “as is where is” policy for interested members
General Insurance:
GSIS also offers very cheap insurance products such as personal accident insurance coverage, fire, comprehensive insurance for vehicles, and other traditional insurance products like aviation, bonds, property floater, marine cargo and marine haul.
GSIS Scholarship:
The Government Service Insurance System also offers scholarship program every academic year for children of low-income GSIS members. The selected qualified scholars will receive up to P 200,000 tuition and miscellaneous fees per semester plus monthly allowance of P2000.
There you have them folks. I hope you have learned about your benefits and I hope you’re happy about them. I give my cheers and kudos to all government employees for their terrific service! You deserve all the best in the world.
Note: If you have personal queries about your GSIS account, please contact GSIS.
hi,
my wife was a member since 1982 up to 2001 when we moved in canada. she died in 2009 and when i sent my sister to file on my behalf to claim her benefits, she was told that it was already claimed by someone else. gsis staff said there’s no such name of my wife’s on their record and her benefit was released based on a slightly different name. i don;t want to bring my wife;s name here so i’ll just cite an example (ex. my wife is maria garcia gonzales and they said there’s someone named maria garcia gonzalo where they have already released all her benefits).
i haven’t done anything about this since then (almost 4 to 5 years passed) but i plan to fight for her benefits when i return next month. can you give me the gsis hotline number, the benefits she’s / we’re entitled to, the forms to be downloaded and all the documents i need to bring? is there an expiry date as to death benefit claim?
thank you so much.
Hi, i worked for the government for four (4) years (2012-2016). Can i continue paying my contributions?
My late sister (single status) filed disability retirement from PNP due to her illness before she died, does my mother (88 years old) may claim pension as her survivor?
My husband is a govt employee.. if he retires, do our PWD minor child granted with pension? Thank you very much!
are there benefit at the age of 45?
whats the process
Magandang araw,tanung ko LNG po bakit ala kaming nakuhang benefits claim s gsis gayong ang aking ama bilang sundalo noong 1977 hanggang 1990 hanggang malipat cya ng PNP, nkamatayan n ng aking INA ay ala p kmi nakukuhang benepisyo s gsis, ganun po btlga?
Hi there. I worked for the government since 2004 and resigned in 2015. How can I continue my contribution?
Thanks.
I’m a retired public school teacher and now base in Ca. I need a certification as pensioner to be used in my Medical. How can I get this? Can I use my email address for this request?
Thank you and have a nice day.
You may contact the member’s assistance email of GSIS. Cheers!
Hello! i have a friend who retired from government service at 65 yrs old but did not reach 15 yrs of service so he cannot get any pension. i know he can claim his contributions but the things is that upon retirement her wife past away and he got so many problems that he forget to process the claim until 4 years has passed. When i helped him claim the said contribution the GSIS employee said to wait until the law on claiming will be changed that if 4 years has passed one can still claim contributions.
Please, if anyone know another way that he can get his contributions please share it to me because the retiree now needs the money more than ever because he is suffering from cancer.
Thank you very much.
May I know when my pension be credited to Union Bank. I retired effective Nov 11, 2010, but the effectivity of my pension was Dec. 1 2015, until now none yet. three times already I followed-up. What is really the cause of the delay.?
Good day! I understand a lot of people mistake your blog as an official GSIS customer service representative.
I have a curious, albeit innocently ignorant question: Once employed by the government, are all these benefits automatically availed of? No need to fill up any forms and pay anything more?
I wonder if you know how much GSIS is deducting from an average employee’s monthly salary (I know it varies, but the percentage relative to basic salary rate would suffice), and if this deduction serves as payment for all these benefits… or are they just payment for some “default” benefits, while the other benefits listed above need to be “actively availed of” where one needs to go to GSIS, fill up forms, queue along with other applicants, and make additional payments… We don’t have a phone yet and the GSIS office is quite far from my place. In addition, the GSIS website is down as of this comment’s writing, so you’re my only source of information as of the moment. Thanks.
plz help me to update my record.
good pm, I’m a secondary teacher at Padre Garcia National High School, Division of Batangas province..I would like to know my status , since I was resigned last 2004 at Pansol National High School and I started again to teach at Padre Garcia NHS dated June 2, 2014 almost 1yr. until now I’m not updated. ||Please update my membership at my present station.
thank you very much,
MRS. EDWINA V. PALUSTRE
I am a Landbank retiree under the Separation Incentive Program (SIP) who retired from the service on March 1, 2014. However, i will receive my monthly pension starting August, 2029 since i retired at the age of 44 in 2014. After a year, I am employed again by a LGU for a permanent position starting again for a new government service. I am qualified to received again another pension from GSIS if I rendered another fifteen years of service in the government?
WOULD like to know when was the effectivity of the minimum retirement benefit of P5,000.00 given by PNOY
Please update the information regarding different types of GSIS members, kindly include Special Members. Special members are constitutional commissioners, members of the judiciary, including those with equivalent ranks, who are required by law to remit regular monthly contributions for life insurance policies to the GSIS in order to answer for their life insurance benefits under R.A. No. 8291.
My elder brother died in active status thtu posthoumous death at age 52 late spo2 palang, wilfredo villarin died jan 23 2010.
is he entitled for death or burial benefitd
I resigned 2009 I just want to know if I had unpaid loan.. Thanks!!
Please verify your account at the GSIS. Bring eCard, or UMID card or valid ID
As what ive known that both my parents are all members of GSIS. But as a beneficiary im trying to follow up on their claims, but unfortunately your office told me that there was no record for my both deceased parents. I emailed you for the concerns but there was a reply from your gsis website apologizing that due to the system of 2009, they told me to file a creation of claims so that i may know what claims i am qualified for. Its almost 5 yrs from the death of my father that we always wasting money and time going to your office but still nothing and its because of your system…Now that im in critical condition, would i should wait when that the claims would be in process or to wait till i will be the next to die and again cannot claim for what is entitled for us..
Hi, this is not GSIS. This is only a review of GSIS benefits. That is so sad and disappointing. I hope GSIS will make that a priority.
how can i update my service record using internet instead of gwaps machine
April 7, 2015
Dear Sir/Mam,
Good day— I am legally married ( with legal document of marriage contract) to a government employee (GSIS member) of the House of Representatives (office of OSAA) but since beyond circumstances that separate our ways unintentionally since 2004 (missing up to the present 2015) where we have no choice but have to leave Cavite as of January 2004 due to traumatic experiences so agreed to transfer to another location (our own house and lot in Camella/Springville, under the TCT name of my husband and me as the co-maker but rent a place instead supposedly momentarily at the downtown area advising the landlady of my missing husband and if found, he will stay with me and my daughter), however, knowing the nature of his job/out of town assignment and the date cannot be moved pn a latter date as per agreement and all keys were turnover (supposedly with agreement for a rent to own scheme as plans for housing loan with a financial/banking institution where I used to work as housing loan –have to bring along his things/documents with us but have no choice to leave the place momentarily but due to tenants chaos so have to leave momentarily and brought only two back-pack (keys left inside rented room other than the 2 bedroom house inner with other things/appliances)—cannot go inside room but learned that other things transferred to the 2 bedroom house and when kept coming back the owner;s house cannot be found for us to go inside so decided rent places for a place to sleep with proximity of office address since work back in different industry companies from 2004-2007 (verification was also made from my husband’s sisters in Valenzuela and Nueva Ecija if found already and left my contact number (office phone and cellular phone) but tragic events beyond our control/ precaution and prevention that lead us to be missing also —-kidnap twice within the neighborhood by known personalities (inside rented places) so no things brought along. With the said turnout events of our life, back to my relatives residence in Cavite aftershock of tragic event (stayed for awhile with baranggay clearance as part of my relatives household but transferred again nearest location of office address but week-end stay). Sent by my relatives to my hometown Davao, try to locate my husband—-got married in one of the localities of northern mindanao officiated by the municipal mayor at that time, verify his Pag-Ibig contributions and GSIS policy and learned per verification made that my husband resigned from House of Representatives as of 2004 accordingly (worked since 1986 so have no whereabouts of him up to the present (2015) and if with continued employment in other government agencies— Please clarify what could be the benefits of the members/dependents (legal spouse not remarry /not married child but working though college undergraduate) if the government employee have no more than 10 years of contributions with GSIS and have resigned from the current job? What would the stand of the surviving legal spouse/wife and child on this circumstances?
My contact details (mobile phone 09124264534 and 09329471897 and email —NO CORPORATE JOB from 2008 – present (2015) upon arrival hometown Davao by relatives though accepted freelance marketing meantime but cannot rely financially since overriding commission basis from sales of my recruits (unit managers/sales agents (no luck and frustrations).
Your attention on the matter will be highly appreciated. Thank you.
Sincerely yours,
ANA ASOY- DURAN ( ANA A. DURAN)
Davao City Philippines born and resident ( with legal documents – Birth Certificate requested from Davao City Local Registrar upon arrival Davao and Marriage Contract from NSO Davao) including my daughter requested from NSO Davao.
I resign in my job as a public health dentist in the Philippines since 1994 and before then i am paying my GSIS,SSS,& so with Pag-ibig.I start working as a government employee since 1985-1993 & that’s also the start of taking the money of this company from my pay stab. So now what will be the requirements to apply for my benefits as a member? Hope i can receive a reply or advice about this problem. Thanks…..
Hi there. I suggest you visit GSIS to check your account to see what benefits eligible for you.
my father is a military officer for 24 years,he retired last jan 2,1993. He died last june 3o,2012, are we entitled to receive funeral and survivorship benefits? thank you.
If he was an active GSIS pensioner, yes you may be entitled for funeral benefits. If his wife is still alive and not married to anyone else, she may be entitled for survivorship benefits. Go to the GSIS and verify and check if really eligible
I would like to know my status as a member since I was resigned last December 1,2012,if all my loans are cleared and is there a possibility of a separation pay?more power to GSIS…
Good pm. I”m a DBP retiree under the Early Retirement Incentive Program (ERIP) who retired from the service on Dec. 31, 2008. I started to receive my GSIS monthly pension last June this year at the age of 60 with E-Card No.
As of date, I have not receive my X”mas bonus from your good office. As such, may I be enlightened on this matter.
Thank you.
Please contact GSIS hotline to verify about your account and your bonus