GSIS inefficiency under scrutiny of city solon

The many complaints against the inefficient and substandard services currently employed by the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has caught the attention of this city’s lone district congressman who vowed to push a congressional investigation on the delays of pension remittance.

Congressman Raul Gonzalez Jr. admitted that he is also open to the idea of opening up a market for other government insurance players, particularly for the more than half a million public school teachers “to break away” from GSIS and form their own insurance group.

Gonzalez Jr. recently sent a letter to city councilor Erwin Plagata to acknowledge receipt of SP Resolution No. 2009-1385 requesting for a congressional investigation on the delays in the remittance of regular monthly pensions of all government retires and employees under the GSIS.

Gonzalez Jr. said that he had already filed HR No. 1049 last March 2009 entitled “Resolution requesting the House of Representatives to conduct an inquiry, in aid of legislation, into the on-going computerization program of GSIS and the purported ‘glitch’ in the system which has resulted in the deterioration of the quality service to its members.”

He said the House committee on government enterprises and privatization chaired by Cong. Felix Alfelor Jr. of Camarines Sur conducted several hearings and will issue shortly its committee report on the GSIS fiasco.

GSIS has tapped the IBM Philippines to establish its computerization program which had suffered a computer glitch for several months already. Both GSIS and IBM assured the government employees to solve the computer problem by December 2009 to January 2010.

Gonzalez Jr. assured that he is willing to help the public school teachers who comprise 30 percent of all government employees in the country, and also, the military soldiers and policemen who want to “secede” from the coverage of GSIS.

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