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[P]etitioner was formerly employed as a nursing The sympathy of law on social security is
attendant at the Veterans Memorial Medical towards its beneficiaries and the law by its own
Center in Quezon City. At the age of forty-five, terms, requires a construction of utmost
and after having rendered more than twenty-five liberality in its favor.
years of government service, he applied for
optional retirement under the provisions of
Section 12(c) of Republic Act No. 1616, giving as
reason therefor his inability to continue working
as a result of his physical disability. The
petitioner likewise filed with the Government
Service Insurance System (GSIS) an application
for income benefits claim for payment under
Presidential Decree (PD) No. 626, as amended.
Both applications were accompanied by the
necessary supporting papers, among them being
a Physicians Certification issued by the
petitioners attending doctor. The petitioners
application for income benefits claim payment
was granted but only for permanent partial
disability (PPD) compensation or for a period of
nineteen months
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