(a) 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.
(b) The payment of such income benefit shall be in accordance with the regulations of the Commission.
Editor’s notes from DOLE (3)
As amended by Sec. 2 of E.O. No. 179 (1987).
ECC Board Resolution No. 96-10-0429 (1996) and Board Resolution No. 12-09-21 (2012) increased the maximum ceiling for daily income benefit for Temporary Total Disability from P90.00 to P200.00 for the private and public sectors, respectively.
Par. (b), as amended by Sec. 19 of P.D. No. 850 (1975).
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