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Republic Act No 6963

This act provides special financial assistance and benefits to the families of police, military, or firemen killed or permanently incapacitated in the line of duty. Section 1 establishes that the family is entitled to assistance in addition to any other compensation received. Section 3 specifies that the assistance shall be equivalent to 6 months of the person's average salary from the last year. The document also outlines the grounds for a claim to be compensable or denied, such as whether the death or injury was work-related or due to misconduct. It emphasizes that the law requires a construction of utmost liberality in favor of beneficiaries.

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Republic Act No 6963

This act provides special financial assistance and benefits to the families of police, military, or firemen killed or permanently incapacitated in the line of duty. Section 1 establishes that the family is entitled to assistance in addition to any other compensation received. Section 3 specifies that the assistance shall be equivalent to 6 months of the person's average salary from the last year. The document also outlines the grounds for a claim to be compensable or denied, such as whether the death or injury was work-related or due to misconduct. It emphasizes that the law requires a construction of utmost liberality in favor of beneficiaries.

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REPUBLIC ACT NO.

6963

AN ACT GRANTING SPECIAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND BENEFITS TO THE


FAMILY OR BENEFICIARY OF ANY POLICE OR MILITARY PERSONNEL OR
FIREMAN KILLED OR PERMANENTLY INCAPACITATED WHILE IN THE
PERFORMANCE OF HIS DUTY OR BY REASON OF HIS OFFICE OR POSITION
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. The family or beneficiary of any police or military personnel, including any
fireman assisting in a police or military action, who is killed or becomes permanently
incapacitated while in the performance of his duty or by reason of his office or
position, provided he has not committed any crime or human rights violations by final
judgment on such occasion, shall be entitled to the special financial assistance provided
for in this Act in addition to whatever compensation, donation, insurance, gift, pension,
grant, or any form of benefit which said deceased or permanently incapacitated person
or his family may receive or be entitled to.

SEC. 3. The special financial assistance referred to in Section One hereof shall be that
which is equivalent to the average six (6) month’s salary, including allowances and
bonuses, during the last twelve (12) months preceding the death of the officer which
shall not be considered a part of the estate of the deceased and which shall be
exempt from attachment, garnishment or execution and from income and other
taxes.

GROUND FOR COMPENSABILITY

For the injury and the resulting disability or death to be compensable, the injury
must be the result of an employment accident satisfying of the following conditions:

1. The PNP member must have been injured at the place where his work requires
him to be and must have been performing his official functions;

2. If the death or injury sustained elsewhere, the uniformed PNP member must
have been executing a lawful order from his Chief of Police of from his
supervisor, as the case maybe;

3. The death or injury sustained by reason of the performance of official duty; or

4. When a PNP member is accidentally injured at a point reasonably


proximate to the place of work, while he is going to and coming from his
work.
GROUND FOR DENIAL OF THE CLAIM

No claim shall be approved or compensation allowed to a uniformed PNP


member of his beneficiaries when the injury or sickness and the resulting disability or
death is occasioned by any of the following:

1. By intoxication or drunkenness or vicious immoral habits, or unauthorized or


illegal use of regulated or prohibited drugs;
2. By willful intention to injure or kill oneself;
3. By notorious or gross negligence;
4. By unlawful aggression or provocation on the part of the claimant or deceased
PNP member.

Finally it is well to echo the Court's ruling in Employees’ Compensation Commission v.


Court of Appeals,21 wherein it was held that:

x x x in case of doubt, the sympathy of the law on social security is toward its
beneficiaries, and the law, by its own terms, requires a construction of utmost liberality
in their favor. For this reason, this Court lends a very sympathetic ear to the cries of the
poor widows and orphans of police officers. If we must demand - as we ought to – strict
accountability from our policemen in safeguarding peace and order day and night, we
must also to the same extent be ready to compensate their loved ones who, by their
untimely death, are left without any means of supporting themselves.

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