Book IV — Health, Safety & Social Welfare
Article 190Rehabilitation services.
ELI5— what this means for you
Workers with permanent disabilities have the right to rehabilitation services through SSS/GSIS: surgery, appliances, vocational assessment, and job retraining to help them return to suitable employment.
Key point
Permanently disabled from a work injury? You're entitled to rehabilitation and job retraining, not just cash benefits.
Official text — PD 442
Rehabilitation services.
The System shall, as soon as practicable, establish a continuing program, for the rehabilitation of injured and handicapped employees who shall be entitled to rehabilitation services, which shall consist of medical, surgical or hospital treatment, including appliances if they have been handicapped by the injury, to help them become physically independent.
As soon as practicable, the System shall establish centers equipped and staffed to provide a balanced program of remedial treatment, vocational assessment and preparation designed to meet the individual needs of each handicapped employee to restore him to suitable employment, including assistance as may be within its resources, to help each rehabilitee to develop his mental, vocational or social potential.
Chapter VI
DISABILITY BENEFITS
Source: lawphil.net (PD 442 as amended)
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