“Under the program, SSS provides daily sickness benefit allowance to qualified members who cannot work due to sickness or injury and confined either in a hospital or at home for at least four days,” the statement read.
Members of the Social Security System quarantined at home for at least four days due to COVID-19 are covered by the Sickness Benefit Program, the agency clarified Monday.
“Under the program, SSS provides daily sickness benefit allowance to qualified members who cannot work due to sickness or injury and confined either in a hospital or at home for at least four days,” the statement read.
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