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Book IV — Health, Safety & Social Welfare

Article 191Temporary total disability.

PD 442 · Labor Code of the PhilippinesELI5 guide available

ELI5— what this means for you

Temporary total disability (being completely unable to work for a period) entitles you to 90% of your average daily salary credit, for up to 120 days. This is the SSS/GSIS sickness benefit for work-related conditions.

Key point

Official text — PD 442

Temporary total disability.

Under such regulations as the Commission may approve, any employee under this Title who sustains an injury or contracts sickness resulting in temporary total disability shall, for each day of such a disability or fraction thereof, be paid by the System an income benefit equivalent to ninety percent of his average daily salary credit, subject to the following conditions: the daily income benefit shall not be less than Ten Pesos nor more than Ninety Pesos, nor paid for a continuous period longer than one hundred twenty days, except as otherwise provided for in the Rules, and the System shall be notified of the injury or sickness. (As amended by Section 2, Executive Order No. 179)

The payment of such income benefit shall be in accordance with the regulations of the Commission. (As amended by Section 19, Presidential Decree No. 850)

Source: lawphil.net (PD 442 as amended)

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