ECC pensioners to receive P20 K starting this month

MANILA, Philippines — Starting this month, pensioners of the Employees Compensation Commission (ECC) will start getting the one-time P20,000 financial grant.

“The P20,000 financial assistance from the ECC for private sector EC pensioners will be credited to their accounts starting this month of June,” Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III announced yesterday.

The one-time financial assistance will be released in batches to about 32,000 EC pensioners by the Social Security System (SSS) and the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS).

ECC executive director Stella Banawis said qualified EC pensioners need not apply for the financial assistance as it will be processed in the same manner as the processing of their EC pensions.

According to Banawis, EC pensioners in the private sector with at least one month of permanent partial disability, permanent total disability or survivorship pension from Jan. 1, 2020 to May 31, 2021 will benefit from the one-time financial assistance.

Last April, President Duterte approved the granting of one-time financial assistance of P20,000 to EC pensioners in both the public and private sectors.

EC pensioners are persons with permanent partial or total disability because of their work or their working environment. They can also be the beneficiaries of employees who died due to work-related contingencies.