To ensure the safety of its pensioners, the Board of Trustees of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) no longer requires pensioners to report to GSIS on their birth month or comply with the Annual Pensioners Information Revalidation (APIR) until the end of 2020.
The pension fund also restored the suspended pension of those who failed to comply with APIR from March to July this year because of the COVID-19 crisis. GSIS credited their pension today in their UMID or ecard accounts.
"We need to exhaust all means to protect our pensioners and members from the transmission of the virus so for the rest of the year, we are not requiring them to report to GSIS either physically or via online. Despite this, they will continue to receive their monthly pension without letup," GSIS President and General Manager Rolando Ledesma Macasaet said.
"Next year, we will institutionalize the online reporting of pensioners or Online APIR. GSIS will take the initiative to contact pensioners on their birth month for their APIR through widely-used videoconferencing platforms such as Viber, Facebook Messenger, Zoom or Skype — the pensioners will be the one to choose the method they prefer," Macasaet explained.
"We enjoin our pensioners to practise using their preferred video conferencing facility now so they will be ready to communicate with us online in 2021," Macasaet said.
Pensioners and other individuals who have inquiries on the suspension of APIR may visit the GSIS website, www.gsis.gov.ph; GSIS official Facebook Page, @gsis.ph; or call the GSIS Contact Center at “ª8847-4747 (if in Metro Manila) or “ª1-800-8-847-4747 (for Globe and TM subscribers) and “ª1-800-10-847-4747 (for Smart, Sun, and Talk ‘N Text subscribers).
