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Executive Order No. 33 (2017)
—pursuant to Article 177 (e) of Presidential Decree No. 626 (s. 1974), as amended, the Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC) has the mandate to upgrade benefits for permanent disability or death, subject to the approval of the President, provided that the actuarial stability of the State Insurance Fund (SIF) shall be guaranteed and that such increases in benefits shall not require any increase in contributions;
Section 1.
EC Funeral Benefits for the Private and Public Sectors. —The amount of EC Funeral Benefits in both the private and public sectors is hereby increased from Twenty Thousand Pesos (P20,000.00) to Thirty Thousand Pesos (P30,000.00), effective immediately.
Section 2.
Appropriation and Release from the SIF. —The ECC, SSS and GSIS are hereby directed to appropriate and release the amounts necessary to cover the increase in benefits set forth in the preceding section from the reserves of the relevant SIF that the SSS and GSIS administer, respectively, under the ECP.
Section 3.
Implementing Rules and Regulations. —The ECC shall issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement this Order. ℒαwρhi৷
Section 4.
Repeal. —All executive orders, rules and regulations and other issuances or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this Executive Order, are hereby revoked, amended, or modified accordingly.
Section 5.
Separability. —If any provision of this Executive Order is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected thereby shall remain valid and subsisting.
Section 6.
Effectivity. —This Executive Order shall take effect immediately upon its publication in a newspaper of general circulation.
DONE—in the City of Manila, this—17th—day of—July—in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Seventeen.
(SGD.)— RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
By the President:
(SGD.)— SALVADOR C. MEDIALDEA Executive Secretary