Regular gov’t employees to receive year-end bonus starting Nov. 15, 2022

Regular government employees—estimated to number over 1.7 million—are set to receive their year-end bonus starting this week, according to the Civil Service Commission (CSC).

CSC Commissioner Aileen Lizada said the guidance provides that regular or plantilla position workers are entitled to a months’ worth of salary, along with a possible cash gift should it be decided upon.

“Depende na rin ‘yan sa executive kung meron pa silang gustong ibigay, but this is really their prerogative in consultation with the DBM [Department of Budget and Management],” she said in Dano Tingcungco's report on GMA’s “24 Oras Weekend” on Sunday.

(It would depend on the executive if they would want to give an additional, but this is really their prerogative in consultation with the DBM.)

Lizada said that the 600,000 employees under a job order and contract of service (COS) are not eligible for the year-end bonus as they are not recognized as regular workers.

There are some 400,000 job order and COS employees under the local government units (LGUs), and some 200,000 employees under other agencies.

“This does not preclude the executive from coming up with a package, depende po in consultation with DBM,” Lizada said.

For its part, the DBM said the government has allocated P56.733 billion for the year-end bonus of qualified civilian and military uniformed personnel, and another P8.619 billion has been appropriated for the grant of the cash gift.

“The release of the year-end bonus and cash gift is provided naman po under our GAA (General Appropriations Act) for this year,” Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman said in a separate statement.

“For sure, many of our fellow government workers have been looking forward to this. We wish to remind our fellow government workers to budget and spend wisely, as what we would always promote here at the DBM,” she added.

The release of the year-end bonus comes as consumer prices in the country have continued to increase, with inflation hitting a 14-year high of 7.7% in October. — Jon Viktor D. Cabuenas/BM, GMA Integrated News