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Social Security System vs. Leonor Arellano, et al.

SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM, petitioner, vs. LEONOR ARELLANO and the WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-33886 | 1984-03-07

D E C I S I O N


PLANA, J.:

This is a petition for review of the resolution of the Workmen's Compensation Commission (WCC) dated June 9, 1971 declaring private respondent Arellano's right to compensation benefits for disability due to pulmonary tuberculosis under a final and partially executed decision of the WCC, as not affected by his subsequent separation (retirement) from the service by his employer, the Social Security System (SSS), for absences that were precisely caused by his illness.

When Leonor Arellano was still working as a clerk in the Claims Department of the Social Security System, he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis on...