Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Amenah Pangandaman has confirmed that qualified government personnel will receive their mid-year bonus starting today, May 15.
“Our civil servants will receive their mid-year bonus this year. We know that this is eagerly awaited by our fellow government employees and will significantly assist them in meeting their daily needs,” Pangandaman said.
“As always, we remind all government agencies and offices to ensure the prompt and timely release of bonuses to their employees, in accordance with our existing rules and regulations. This will begin on May 15,” she added in a statement May 14.
The mid-year bonus is equal to the one month’s basic pay of entitled government workers, as of May 15. The personnel must still be employed in the government as of May 15, and should have received at least a satisfactory performance rating in the most recent rating period, or applicable performance appraisal period.
The mid-year bonus will be provided to all civilian personnel, including regular, casual, and contractual employees. These include appointive or elective positions, both full-time and part-time, in local government units, executive, legislative, and judicial branches, Constitutional commissions, state universities and colleges, and government-owned or controlled corporations covered by the Compensation and Position Classification System.
The bonus also extends to military and uniformed personnel, including the Armed Forces of the Philippines under the Department of National Defense, Philippine National Police, Philippine Public Safety College, Bureau of Fire Protection, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, Bureau of Corrections, Philippine Coast Guard, and National Mapping and Resource Information Authority.
The allocation of mid-year bonuses for personnel in provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangays will be determined by their respective sanggunian, subject to DBM policy conditions, Pangandaman said.
The appropriations for the grant of the mid-year bonus were released to concerned agencies at the start of the year. “Hence, the provision of said benefits to qualified personnel is already under the jurisdiction of the concerned agencies,” she added. ||
