Philhealth Branches — Membership Reactivation
Here are some tips when reactivating your Philhealth membership, based on what we recently experienced.
If you’re a former OFW who paid membership fees when Philhealth was still called Medicare, most probably your record is no longer with Philhealth. So when you want to be a member again, you will be applying as a new member.
You will use the new membership form, and you need to bring your birth certificate, your marriage certificate (so you can include your spouse as your dependent), and birth certificates (so your children will be enrolled as your dependents). Bring original and xerox copies.
If your spouse is a former Philhealth member, he/she can’t be enrolled as your dependent even if he/she has not paid his/her membership fees for more than 12 months. This was my case. I was rejected as a dependent even if I haven’t paid for more than 12 months.
What I should do, according to Philhealth, is to write a letter informing them I haven’t paid my premiums for many months and ask them to allow my husband to register me as his dependent. I hope Philhealth will address this issue in the coming months, so this type of letter is not needed.
Anyway, I wrote the letter, telling them I’m already inactive, and now I’m a dependent of my husband, who’s a former OFW and now an Individually Paying Member.
Here are the offices of Philhealth:
Main Office:
Citystate Centre, 709 Shaw Boulevard,
Pasig City
Trunkline: new number is 441-7444 (as of July 2011, no longer 637-9999)
Office Hours: 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday
info@philhealth.gov.ph
Update as of August 12, 2010: Starting September 1, this branch will hold office at DAP Bldg., San Miguel Ave., Ortigas Center, Pasig City, within the vicinity of SM Megamall. To be sure if the branch has moved before or on schedule, call the office before going there.
Las Piñas Service Office
471 Editha Building, Alabang-Zapote Road,
Las Piñas City
Telephones: 5565374, 5565687, 8015256
Manila Service Office
Marc I Bldg., 1971 Taft Avenue,
Malate, Manila
Administrative – 5216776
Claims – 5232819
Collection – 5233959/5213610
Membership – 5217724/5239842
Caloocan Service Office
Remcor Bldg., Rizal Ave. Extension
between 10th & 11th Ave., Caloocan City
Tel Nos: 3652012, 3652014
Quezon City Service Office
F.R. Estuar Bldg., 880 Quezon Avenue,
Quezon City
Office of the Branch Manager – 3323022
Collection Section – 3323024
Membership Section – 3323132
Rizal Service Office
The Brick Road Sta. Lucia East Grand Mall
Cainta, Rizal
Tel No: 6815111
Makati Service Office
ITC Building, 337 Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue,
Makati City
solp@philhealth.gov.ph
Tel Nos: 897-1598, 897-2759, 897-6329, 897-3337, 899-4506
For those in the Alabang area, the Philhealth office is near SM Southmall. If you’re coming from Alabang, it’s to your right, after passing Southmall.
The minimum membership payment is 300 pesos (payment for one quarter, 100 pesos per month). You can pay for 6 months or more.
UPDATE:
Effective October 1, 2010, Philhealth premiums for professionals with a family income of more than 25,000 per month will increase to 600 pesos per quarter, or 2,400 per year, and then further increases to 900 pesos per quarter, or 3,600 pesos per year starting in the second year of the implementation of the premium increase. See Philhealth Premiums for Professionals.
Other Philhealth Branches Are in These Related articles:
Philhealth Branches in South Metro, Laguna, Cavite, Batangas, Lucena
Philhealth Branches in North Metro, Central Metro and Bulacan
Philhealth Requires Nine Months of Prior Payments
No Philhealth Payments Prior, No Philhealth Benefits
Death — Prepare for Yourself and Those You’ll Leave Behind
Remember, man, that you are dust and unto dust you shall return.
The sad realities of life, such as deaths and illnesses, have struck our family, so I did not have time to make updates on this blog.
Thank you to all those who made comments on this blog while I was away.
There are lessons learned that I can share here:
1. Make your last instructions now, so your family will know what to do in case the Lord calls you to heaven.
Put your last instructions in a safe place that they can access — your personal drawer or your family safe.
List all insurance or investment plans that they can claim. Tell them where they can find your documents. List the requirements needed to make a claim.
Instruct them to cut your credit cards immediately. Tell them about what they will do regarding your balances.
Tell them about your current debts (such as debts owed to persons) and what you have paid and instruct them about what to do.
Similarly, list the persons who still owe you money and the amounts owed and compile documents or proofs if available. Better yet, collect them now, or put the loans into writing, especially for large amounts.
2. If there are still properties that need to be divided with your brothers and sisters, divide them now, so that your children do not have to do the negotiations with their cousins or uncles and aunts. Transfer the titles directly to your children to save on transfer costs.
3. Show more appreciation to you parents, husband and children. Say thank you more often. Tell them you love them.
Lastly, the most important of all, make sure you are going to heaven. This is not about doing good all the time, or never sinning. This is not possible for anyone.
What is possible now at this moment is to accept you are a sinner, accept Jesus Christ as your only Savior, ask forgiveness from Him and believe you are now saved.
OFW Jobs and Children: A Suicide Stirs a Neighborhood
OFW jobs feed families, send children to school, build houses, help relatives, improve lives; but sometimes, they kill children emotionally and literally.
This morning, our neighborhood was stirred up by the sudden piercing cries and screams of a 10-year-old girl inside a long vacant unit beside her family’s house. “Kuya! kuya! kuya!…”
Neighbors ran to see what happened, and they were shocked to see her 13-year-old brother hanging from a rope tied to one of the exposed beams.
Cerge Remonde — The Prayer
He was 51. He died at 11:51 am on January 19 and he wrote his LAST PRAYER at 6:51 pm the night before, exactly 17 hours before he passed away.
I don’t know Press Secretary Cerge Remonde personally. But I liked how he was generally cool when responding to questions during press conferences, although I don’t agree with some of his views. I liked how he smiled and how he treated his staff.
And I’m touched by his LAST PRAYER — written on his Facebook page 17 hours before he died:
Lord, thank you for your infinite love
that meets our every need
and provides all the beautiful
and wonderful things we experience in life.
Release our hearts and minds from fear and worry.
Fill us with your peace
as we learn to fully trust in your providence.
Help us to do all that we are capable of
and the rest we entrust unto you.
Amen.
Ondoy and Pepeng: Multiple Blows to the Soul, but Pinoys Go On
I’m from a farming family in La Union, so when I saw the hectares and hectares of rice fields in the North turned into raging rivers after Pepeng battered them not only once, but many times, I felt the pain of the farmers being interviewed on TV.
There was a time in my younger years when our family and most families in our village were about to harvest from our rice fields that have turned golden and have made the air smell of bounty and sufficiency. But the floods came and turned that year and the next year our most trying years, when families had to eat literally camote and other root crops for months.
Back then, there were no OFWs to ask aid from, and there were no TV stations that looked for places to help and there were no foundations or government agencies that distributed noodles or canned goods.
The farmers interviewed on TV lost their harvest, ranging from 100,000 to 300,000 pesos, including their source seeds. Many of them will also have to pay loans for the fertilizers, herbicides and rental farming equipment.
But they all ended their statements with “Nabiag tay pay met. Dimi ammo no kasano, ngem ikarigatan ti bumangon“ — which means “We’re still alive. We don’t know how, but we will strive to rise again.”
Photo of flooded village taken by Erik de Castro for Reuters
Cows and Homes in Muntinlupa
We wander a little bit from our main topic of working and be entertained by images of some of our friendly animals.
In our place in Muntinlupa, in the highest part of the city, bordering Cavite and Laguna, there are still a lot of open spaces — green all around when rains abound and brown when the dry season lengthens.
So it is typical for us residents here to see cows, chickens, goats and turkeys, mingling with FXs, cars, jeepneys and people.
We live a bit north of this subdivision. Ours is not fenced.
Update on the Lilian de Vera Case
Update on From Lilian de Vera (victim of the Paranaque shooting incident)
According to Nikko Dizon in the April 4, 2009 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer:
- All 17 members of the Highway Patrol Group involved in the so-called Paranaque shooting last December 5 attended the Commission on Human Rights’ hearing on April 3.
- All didn’t testify; they invoked their right to remain silent.
- Two witnesses affirmed the testimony of one witness in the January hearing that only police operatives were in the area when the shooting happened.
- These two witnesses also disputed the claim that robbers in a Revo van shot the De Veras.
- One witness said he saw men wearing vests with the Regional Special Action Force letters.
- Another witness testified he heard the police operatives saying they had killed the driver of the vehicle, who later turned out to be Lilian’s husband Alfonso
Cops in shootout invoke right to stay silent
Nikko Dizon
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Some of the Best Freeware, Free Advice You Can Use for Your Website
1. Wordweb
You need a combined thesaurus and dictionary to help you with your writing some of the time. And of course, you want an easy-to-use, complete, current and accessible one. WordWeb is it. You will be glad you discovered it. The free version is as good as any dictionary on the Internet. You can download it and then put a shortcut on your desktop. For freelance writers like me, this is an amazing gift.
2. Blogger
Not only you can use Blogger.com to host your sites, you can also use it to easily compose your posts or articles for other sites. For example, you’re writing for Squidoo which doesn’t have an automatic html feature, or you’re composing something for your Wordpress sidebar, and you need to put links or you need to put some words in colors or in better fonts, you just go to the Create New Post of your blogger.com account, click Compose and then create your posts or short notes. After you finish, click Edit Html, and then you have it, your short notes in Html format. Of course, Wordpress has a more sophisticated writing interface, but I’ve found that blogger.com loads and responds very fast for short posts and notes for my Wordpress sidebars.
3. Fotoflexer
This is one of the easiest free online editing photo editors I’ve found. You don’t even have to register before using it. Just upload your photo from your PC, or get it from other online photo hosts such as picasaweb, and then you can start editing your photo. Fotoflexer is good for non-Photoshop experts like me because it has an Undo feature that you can click many times. It also has Apply and Cancel buttons. When you try the tools such as Effects and Beautify, you can try clicking all options and then click Cancel if you don’t like the result.
4. Webmasterlabor
If you’re a freelance writer, you would like to make sure that your article is not exactly the same as any other article on the Internet. Surely, you wouldn’t like anyone to think of even just a taint of plagiarism when they read your article. Even if you know you wrote it on your own, it pays to check it. Just paste your article on the box, click Compare with Google, copy the number shown, click Compare and then wait for a few minutes until a new page appears. Click New and then you’d see if some of your phrases have duplicates on the internet. Of course, if you have the paid Copyscape service, you don’t need this. There are other tests, which I would describe in another article.
As of May 2009, this site has stopped its plagiarism checking service. As a substitute, I recommend PlagiarismDetect.com This needs registration and accomplishment of a short usage survey.
5. Create your Own Widget-Ready Footer in Wordpress
help-developer.com/index.php/2008/07/creating-a-widget-ready-footer-in-wordpress
This article is specially mentioned, although there are lots of helps across the internet, because it was really helpful to me. It was just Copy and Paste, and some little tweaks in the CSS after. If you’re using a Wordpress theme that has no footer “sidebar”, and you like to have one, here’s a set of instructions very easy to follow. Just copy and paste. There is just one instruction there that you need to change– the codes that you need to paste on your footer.php. Just download the files the author is asking you to download. Open the footer.php in Word and then copy the subfooter block. This is the one you need to copy and paste on your footer.php. Perhaps the author just wants us to think a little and not just copy and paste and then sleep.
From Lilian de Vera (victim of the Paranaque shooting incident)
The following is a copy of an email written by Lilia De Vera, whose husband Alfonso and 7-year-old daughter were killed in a shootout involving NCRPO police officers on the night of December 5, 2008 in United Paranaque Subdivision 4:
Two months ago I considered myself as one of those blessed and happiest
people on earth. Why not? I married a guy who was an epitome of kindness. A guy who worshipped even the footsteps I made. More importantly, our union blessed us with a daughter who not only became the main source of our happiness. More so, she was the center of our lives.
We’re simple folks who led a simple life. We felt the happiest even about
mundane things and inconsequential ones that most people would only take
for granted. Our joy mostly revolved on simple pleasures like a sudden trip
to Jollibee or a late night marauding of the fridge for any leftovers. A perfect family with simple delights, dreams and aspirations… until that
fateful night on December 5, 2008. The day my husband and daughter were
taken away from me in a very violent way. That Friday night on December 5,
2008 marked the beginning of all the terror, anguish and misery in my life.
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