THROUGH the assistance of the Quick Response Team of the Employees’ Compensation Commission Regional Extension Unit No. 7 (ECC-REU7), the family of a worker, who met a fatal work-related accident in July 2015, has received a benefit amounting to P39,428.64 under the Employees’ Compensation Program (ECP).
On July 9, 2015 at around 3:45 pm, AquillesCabique, a former loader of Excel Coil, Inc., was guiding the forklift operator in unloading bundles of galvanized iron sheets into a Mitsubishi pick-up which were to be delivered to a customer. Suddenly, one of the G.I. sheets was dislodged from its place causing it to fall and fatally slicing Cabique on his neck. He was rushed to Perpetual Succour Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
During the ECC-QRP Teamvisit, Rosslyn Cabique, wife of the deceased worker, was informed of her husband’s benefits under the ECP, as his death resulted from a work-related accident. She was also advised on how to file for the EC claim of her husband at the Social Security System, the administering agency of the ECP for the private sector.
The EC claim was approved and Cabique’s wife received almost P40,000 representing her husband’s funeral and death benefits.
The ECP is a government program designed to provide workers and/or their beneficiaries with income benefits in the event of work-related sickness, injury, or death.
On the other hand, the ECC-QRT Program provides immediate help to workers who suffer from work-connected contingencies, or to their families who have to deal with work accidents, by providing information about the ECP and assistance in the filing of claims in the SSS for private sector workers, or in the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), the administering agency of the ECP for the public sector workers. /PR
