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Executive Order No. 500 (1991)
actuarial studies show that the Health Insurance Fund administered by the Social Security System can further finance the benefits of their unemployed permanent partial disability pensioners, who are no longer covered under the Medicare Program, and their dependents without impairing the said Fund's viability;
Section 1. Social Security System's unemployed permanent partial disability pensioners, who are no longer covered under the Medicare Program, and their dependents shall be entitled to Medical Care benefits as provided for by law, without need of any additional contribution.
Section 2. This Executive Order shall take effect on the 1st day of January, 1992.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 27th day of December, in the year of our Lord. nineteen hundred and ninety-one.
(Sgd.) CORAZON C. AQUINO
By the President:
(Sgd.) FRANKLIN M. DRILON Executive Secretary