(At left is Winston Garcia preening before the camera in San Francisco at the launch of the disastrous eCard enrollment program in the United States on March 6, 2007. Photo courtesy PhilippineNews.com)
“This is the first pension service of its kind in the world, and it is 100 percent homegrown.”
That is how Winston Garcia, GSIS chairman and president, described the disaster-plagued eCard program that he has initiated. By electronically capturing the fingerprints of pensioners through biometric technology, the program aims to prevent fraud in the cashing of pension checks.
But in his haste to roll out the program without fully testing it and eliminating all major glitches associated with this new technology, he has adversely affected the lives of of tens of thousands of ailing and elderly pensioners.
Just ask the pensioners who have filed a case against the GSIS in Iloilo, and those in the United States whom he had greatly inconvenienced and whose fragile health he had put in harm's way (read on to fully grasp this statement).
His reckless disregard for the welfare of the pensioners and their families who depend on their pension to survive is changing people's lives for the worse.
His trip to the United States, judging on how his undermanned team of GSIS personnel had performed (it wasn't their fault but Garcia's that they were totally overwhelmed), was a total waste of the state pension fund's money.
The Congress should make him accountable for his poor performannce at the GSIS. The next time he issues self-serving press releases, they should question every word in his claims.
No one is doing more harm to the pensioners than the man who is supposed to protect their interest.
If there is to be any meaningful changes at the GSIS, this feckless Garcia must have to go.
“This is the first pension service of its kind in the world, and it is 100 percent homegrown.”
That is how Winston Garcia, GSIS chairman and president, described the disaster-plagued eCard program that he has initiated. By electronically capturing the fingerprints of pensioners through biometric technology, the program aims to prevent fraud in the cashing of pension checks.
But in his haste to roll out the program without fully testing it and eliminating all major glitches associated with this new technology, he has adversely affected the lives of of tens of thousands of ailing and elderly pensioners.
Just ask the pensioners who have filed a case against the GSIS in Iloilo, and those in the United States whom he had greatly inconvenienced and whose fragile health he had put in harm's way (read on to fully grasp this statement).
His reckless disregard for the welfare of the pensioners and their families who depend on their pension to survive is changing people's lives for the worse.
His trip to the United States, judging on how his undermanned team of GSIS personnel had performed (it wasn't their fault but Garcia's that they were totally overwhelmed), was a total waste of the state pension fund's money.
The Congress should make him accountable for his poor performannce at the GSIS. The next time he issues self-serving press releases, they should question every word in his claims.
No one is doing more harm to the pensioners than the man who is supposed to protect their interest.
If there is to be any meaningful changes at the GSIS, this feckless Garcia must have to go.
