The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) on Monday, June 28, announced that it will provide insurance coverage to 6,600 Philippine Postal Corporation (PhilPost) personnel, including permanent and contractual employees and postmen nationwide.

GSIS President and General Manager Rolando Ledesma Macasaet said the state insurance system will provide dismemberment, medical reimbursement, and burial assistance to PhilPost personnel and postmen.
"This will be a great relief for PhilPost workers, especially during this pandemic. They will be reassured that someone will help their family in case something happens to them," Macasaet said in Filipino.
"COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease) has put the world at a standstill, running for more than a year now. But despite the trials that are coming, we continue to serve and deliver the service with care. Our brave postmen and Post Office Staff are always ready to respond," Philpost Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer Norman Fulgencio said.
PhilPost has allotted a budget of P616,000 for the insurance coverage.
It is the second agency that partnered with GSIS to insure its personnel.
On June 14, the Manila City Government approved a P7.5 million insurance coverage to around 45,000 barangay officials, including barangay watchmen and chairpersons of the Sangguniang Kabataan.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, GSIS launched the Bayanihan Fund for Frontliners. Under the program, the family of public frontliners who would succumb to COVID-19 are entitled to an additional P500,000 in insurance benefits over and above their life insurance benefits as GSIS members.