Senator Antonio Trillanes IV refiled a bill providing
additional insurance coverage and benefits to all members of the uniformed
services to further support them in case of untoward incidents.
Under Senate Bill No. 284, uniformed personnel will be
provided with additional PHP250,000 death and disability benefits, and up to
PHP100,000 benefits for reimbursement of medical expenses.
These include those in the Armed Forces of the Philippines
Trillanes said that currently, military and police personnel
are covered by the Special Group Term Insurance of only PHP16,000 for natural
deaths and PHP32,000 for those Killed-in-Action plus PHP1,000 burial benefit.
The former Navy officer further said that these amounts were
last amended last March 2000 and are no longer sufficient to cover their
financial and medical needs considering the risks they face in the course of
their work.
"We demand so much from our uniformed personnel: from
preserving internal peace and security, particularly in the intensified
anti-drug and anti-crime campaign of the government, to rescue, relief and
rehabilitation efforts during times of calamity and crisis,” Trillanes said.
“It is only fair that we assure our uniformed personnel and
their families, through this measure, that the government is ready to support
them in case something untoward happens," he added.
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