5/28/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly [7] Id. [8] CA rollo, pp. 44-45. [9] Docketed as NLRC NCR Case No. (M) 06-12-03720-00.0 [10] Rollo, p. 64. [11] CA rollo, pp. 122-135. [12] Resolution of April 22, 2008; id. at 175-181. [13] Rollo, pp. 61-74. [14] Id. at 76-77. [15] Period of entitlement. - (a) The income benefit shall be paid beginning on the first day of such disability. If caused by an injury or sickness it shall not be paid longer than 120 consecutive days except where such injury or sickness still requires medical attendance beyond 120 days but not to exceed 240 days from onset of disability in which case benefit for temporary total disability shall be paid. However, the System may declare the total and permanent status at any time after 120 days of continuous temporary total disability as may be warranted by the degree of actual loss or impairment of physical or mental functions as determined by the System. [Emphasis ours] [16] Upon sign-off from the vessel for medical treatment, the seafarer is entitled to sickness allowance equivalent to his basic wage until he is declared fit to work or the degree of permanent disability has been assessed by the company-designated physician but in no case shall this period exceed one hundred twenty (120) days. [17] 588 Phil. 895, 912 (2008). [18] Crystal Shipping, Inc. v. Natividad, 510 Phil. 332, 340-341 (2005). [19] Under Section 32 of the POEA-SEC, only injuries or disabilities classified as Grade 1 may be considered as total and permanent. [20] G.R. No. 194362, June 26, 2013, 700 SCRA 53, 64. [21] Id. [22] G.R. No. 203161, February 26, 2014. elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/57993 9/10