Guide on SSS Sickness Benefit Requirements Sick Members Must Prepare
SSS SICKNESS BENEFIT REQUIREMENTS – Here is a list of the documents required by the Social Security System under the SSS Sickness Benefit claim.
The Social Security System (SSS) offers several benefits and loans, including the SSS cash loan, for its members. One of these benefits is the Sickness Benefit which was crafted to financially assist members who were unable to report to work for at least four (4) days due to sickness or injury.
The SSS Sickness Benefit covers both home confinement and hospital confinement. Every member is entitled to up to a 120-day coverage under the said benefit offer. The amount will be on a case-to-case basis.
There are SSS Sickness Benefit requirements needed in filing the claim. Here are the documents you must prepare and submit to the state-run social insurance institution:
- duly-accomplished Sickness Benefit Application (SBA) Form
- SS ID/UMID card or any valid primary ID cards/documents, as follows:
- Driver’s License
- Passport
- Voter’s ID Card
- National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Clearance
- Postal Identity Card
- Any other government-issued (secondary) ID cards/documents
- Supporting medical documents for prolonged confinement/sickness, if any:
- Laboratory, X-ray, ECG, and other diagnostic results
- Operating room/clinical record that will support diagnosis
Among the requirements, there are documents that are only needed for the purpose of presentation to SSS. If the claim application will be processed by the member-patient, an original primary ID card/document or two (2) secondary ID cards/documents, both with signature and at least one with photo, must be presented.
In case the application for the claim will be processed by an authorized representative of the member, original of any one (1) of the member’s and the authorized representative’s primary ID cards/documents or two (2) secondary ID cards/documents, both with signature and at least one with photo, must be presented to SSS.
Aside from the Sickness Benefit offer, the Social Security System also offers SSS Retirement Benefits for the senior members of the state-run social insurance agency.
