ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro on Saturday slammed the Department of Education for the non-remittance of Government Service Insurance System premiums of public school teachers resulting in penalties and interests amounting to millions of pesos.
“One of the long-running concerns of public school teachers is the non-remittance of GSIS premiums despite having their contribution deducted automatically from their salaries monthly,” he said.
“Case in point is the complaint we recently received regarding the DepEd Batangas province division’s failure to timely remit the premium despite having their contributions almost P1.93 million in interest. Aside from the delay, premiums for one month remain unremitted,” he added.
He called on the Education department to immediately remit such lapses in contributions, and check with all its regional and division offices to see if non-remittance of contributions was an isolated case or not.
“It should also address the other complaints which we continue to receive such as failure to deduct and collect payments for teachers’ loans as well,” he said.
“The law is clear but DepEd simply fails to do its task. The law also provides for a 2 percent interest per month for delayed remittance. The same applies to teachers’ loans from GSIS, they incur penalties and interests to be shouldered by the teachers,” he added.
