P11.6B na performance-based bonus para sa 900K school workers, inilabas – DBM

IPINALABAS na ng Department of Budget and Management (DBM)  ang  P11 billion para sa  budgetary requirement para sa  performance-based bonus (PBB) ng mahigit sa  900,000 personnel sa iba’t ibang public elementary at secondary schools sa ilalim ng Department of Education (DepEd).

Sinabi ng DBM  na may kabuuang  P11.6 billion ang ipinalabas para sa Fiscal Year 2021 PBB ng 920,073 school-based workers.

Ang basehan ng pagkakaloob ng  FY 2021 PBB ay ang naging accomplishments ng DepEd para sa FY 2021,

“The Final Evaluation Assessment for the DepEd was released by the Administrative Order No. 25 Inter-Agency Task Force in January 2023, while the necessary documents for the purpose were submitted by the DepEd to the DBM from April to August 2023,” ayon sa Budget Department.

“This could be attributed to the strikingly high number of eligible personnel at around 900,000 employees in the DepEd, and the voluminous documents being submitted for the purpose,” dagdag na pahayag ng departamento sabay sabing ang ebalwasyon ng mga dokumento ay “was facilitated and processed by the DBM immediately after.”

“The DBM stands with our nation’s educators and recognizes their extraordinary work. We are one with our teachers in the pursuit of the immediate release of their PBB,” ayon kay  Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman.

Tinukoy ang mga records, sinabi ng DBM na “as of September 1, 2023,” ang lahat ng 16 Regional Offices (ROs) ng Budget Department ay nagpalabas na ng kanilang  katumbas o katugon na Special Allotment Release Orders (SAROs) at Notice of Cash Allocations (NCAs)  sa  DepEd  para sa  FY 2021 PBB ng school-based personnel.

“The SAROs/NCAs have been issued after the DBM’s evaluation and validation of the required updated documents, which DepEd submitted from April to August 2023,” ayon sa DBM.

Samantala, ang documentary requirements para sa FY 2021 PBB ng  non-teaching personnel sa ilalim ng  Schools Division Offices sa walong ROs —National Capital Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, Regions III, IV-A, VIII, XI, XII, at  XIII— ay ibinalik ng  DBM sa  DepEd para sa  revalidation/revision.

“The documents were sent back due to varying concerns, such as duplicate entries, incorrect information on the months of service, and certain personnel not found in the DepEd’s Personnel Services Itemization and Plantilla of Personnel, among others,” ayon sa DBM.

“Once received, revalidated, and approved by DBM, the documents will be endorsed to DBM ROs for processing of the SARO and NCA,” lahad pa rin ng departamento.  (Daris Jose)