MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court has nullified a Government Service Insurance Corp. (GSIS) resolution that stripped secondary beneficiaries of survivorship benefits on behalf of members who died with less than 15 years of service in government.
In a decision on Feb. 24 and made public only recently, the high tribunal’s Third Division declared ultra vires, or beyond the scope of the GSIS’s authority, a provision on the revised implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Republic Act No. 8291, or the GSIS Act, and barred the state insurer from implementing it further.
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It granted the petition for review on certiorari filed by the father of a deceased member because the GSIS “exceeded its authority in promulgating the Revised IRR of Republic Act No. 8291 by removing the right of secondary beneficiaries to receive survivorship benefits under the conditions expressly recognized by the law.”FEATURED STORIES
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