GSIS now accepts e-filing for start-of-pension application

Date published: Jul 16,2020July 16, 2020

Date Posted: July 16, 2020 Nearly 4,000 GSIS retirees and survivorship pensioners who have not submitted their application for the start of their pension, may now apply through email as an alternative method of filing. “This is meant to minimize their risk of exposure to the COVID-19 virus. They can now do it at the comfort of their own homes,” GSIS President and General Manager Rolando Ledesma Macasaet said. Further, the pension fund chief stressed that the online filing of application for pension is one of the strategic ways adopted by GSIS to adjust its existing operational processes under the...

GSIS members reminded on ill effects of unpaid loans

Date published: Nov 25,2019November 25, 2019

Date Posted: Nov. 25, 2019 State pension fund Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has urged its members to ensure religious and accurate loan repayment in order avoid negative consequences on their social insurance benefits. “We are reminding our member-borrowers to pay the correct loan amortizations on time. This will preserve their future benefits, which they have earned and should enjoy for devoting their prime in government service,” GSIS Chairman and Acting President and General Manager (APGM) Rolando Ledesma Macasaet said. He added that if left unpaid, loans incur interests and penalties. When the obligation is deducted from their retirement or...

Macasaet named OIC of GSIS

Date published: Jul 04,2019July 4, 2019

Date Posted: July 04, 2019 At its meeting today, the governing board of state pension fund Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), named Chairman Rolando L. Macasaet as its officer in charge, upon the recommendation of Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez. The Department of Finance exercises administrative supervision over government financial institutions pursuant to Executive Order No. 251 (s. 2000), which further defined the supervision and coordination of policies, plans, and programs by the Department of Finance over certain government financial institutions, including GSIS. In the meeting, the Board of Trustees also noted the President’s acceptance of the resignation of former...