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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Speak out: Delayed pension checks
By Jose R. Gapas
(This letter is addressed to officials of the Government Service Insurance System)
My wife and I are both government retirees and pensioners of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS).
It is now the 12th of December. It is Christmas time but we have not received our December pension checks. It is supposed to have been received by us two weeks ago. It is a bleak and unhappy days for poor government retirees like us.
The previous arrangement wherein GSIS sent our pensions to the Land Bank of the Philippines, which automatically puts these into our accounts, was an efficient system. Why did you deprive us of it?
GSIS is the biggest and richest government corporation in the country. It is supposed to be owned by its members. But we have heard and read time and again that people at your level have allowed politically powerful people to use and abuse our GSIS.
We ask you to manage our GSIS to serve the needs and interests of its members.
When we were in public service, we served with pride the needs and interests of the public and our fellow citizens. We ask you to do the same.
So please send us our pension checks for December and see to it that our succeeding pension checks reach us as scheduled. It is our only source of livelihood.
Do not reduce us to beggars. We have worked for and are entitled from our GSIS the stature of dignified Filipino citizens.
(December 14, 2005 issue)
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