State pension fund Government Service Insurance System will reinstitute the personal-appearance requirement for old-age and survivorship pensioners to sustain a sound pension fund.
Dubbed Annual Pensioners’ Information Revalidation, the program will be done to monitor the status of pensioners and ensure the pension of demised pensioners are discontinued immediately to avoid overpayment that may bring about financial losses.
Under APIR, GSIS requires old-age and survivorship pensioners to appear personally at any GSIS office or use the GSIS Wireless Automated Processing System kiosk to activate their status and ensure the continuous receipt of their pension.
GSIS will undertake the three-month reactivation period from March 23 to June 30, 2018. During this period, all pensioners who are 79 years old and below, regardless of birth month, must undergo the information revalidation process and reactivate their status.