GOOD NEWS! DepEd Employees Will Receive 15, 000 Pesos SRI

 President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has issued administrative orders granting service recognition incentive (SRI) for employees in the executive department as well as one-time rice allowance to all government employees for this year.

PBBM orders grant of service recognition incentive (SRI), rice allowance to gov’t employees (FY 2022)

The President’s order authorizes the grant of a one-time service recognition incentive at a uniform rate not exceeding P20,000 for executive department personnel.

On December 19, 2022, the Department of Education issued an Administrative Order (AO) No. 1 authorizes the grant of a one-time Service Recognition Incentive (SRI) for FY 2022 at a uniform rate not exceeding Twenty Thousand Pesos (PHP 20,000.00) for each of qualified employees of the national government.

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The funding requirement for the purpose will be sourced from available FY 2022 released allotment for Personal Services and may be augmented by available FY  2022 allotment for Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses, subject to rules on modification of allotment.

DepEd Employees Will Receive 15, 000 Pesos SRI 

According to the AO 1, DepEd will provide a rate of Fifteen Thousand Peson (PHP 15, 000.00) SRI per eligible employee. Finance Undersecretary Annalyn M. Sevilla has been instructed to process and release the SRI not earlier than December 20, 2022 but not later than January 6, 2023.

Cash Incentive will be given NOT thru ATM payroll accounts.

The said incentive shall be paid through cash to the qualified DepEd Officials and employees, and not thru the usual crediting to their respective ATM payroll accounts.

CA can be drawn by the DepEd Schools Division Office (SDO) Implementing Unit (IU) cashier/disbursing officer

The disbursements should be made through Cash Advance (CA).  CA can be drawn by the DepEd Schools Division Office (SDO) Implementing Unit (IU) cashier/disbursing officer

In the said AO, the concerned Officials/School Heads are encouraged to strategize and start working on their pay out plans in order to avoid the building of long lines/queuing in their respective areas and to ensure that full amount of the incentive will be received  by DepEd officials and employees, subject to existing budgeting, accounting and auditing regulations.

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