Yesterday, April 4, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) announced that employers must pay workers double pay for services rendered on the proclaimed regular holidays this month. “They should be paid an additional 30 percent of the hourly rate for working overtime. Moreover, employees working on a regular holiday and days off should receive […]
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GSIS: Ginhawa for All (GFAL) Computer Loan is extended until June 30, 2022
Are you planning to take out a loan this year? Good news for the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) members, the GSIS' Ginhawa for All (GFAL) Computer Loan that aims to provide GSIS members with a P30,000 loan to assist them in purchasing a computer for their work-from-home setup or their children's virtual classrooms is […]
Quezon City: Seniors are entitled to get free monthly maintenance medicines
Under the City Ordinance no. SP-2892 passed in December 2019, authored by Majority Leader Franz Pumaren, Councilor Donny Matias and Councilor Imee Rillo, the Quezon City's Senior Citizen Maintenance Medicine Program relaunch begins today, April 5, 2022. Senior citizens who need maintenance medicines for hypertension, diabetes, or high cholesterol will be able to access them […]
SSS extends ACOP compliance to June 30, 2022
Good news for SSS pensioners, the Annual Confirmation of Pensioners' Program (ACOP) compliance has been extended from it's original deadline (March 31) to June 30, 2022, according to SSS President and CEO Michael Regino. This is to give SSS pensioners longer time to comply and to avoid suspension of their monthly pension. “We urge those […]
Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Credit and Policy Councils (ACPC)
Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC) was created in 1986 by virtue of Executive Order 113 to assist the Department of Agriculture (DA) in synchronizing all credit policies and programs in support of the latter’s priority programs. There are five (5) programs under the ACPC which include SURE COVID-19, Kapital Access for Young Agri-preneurs (KAYA), Agri-Negosyo […]
Lists of DepEd Teachers' Benefits and Allowances for FY 2022
By law, the biggest share of the National Budget goes to the education sector, which covers funding for the Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), and State Universities and Colleges (SUCs). For Fiscal Year 2022, DepEd along with its attached agencies received 633.32 Billion or […]
SSS to stop May pension release to non-PESONet accounts if not changed by March 31, 2022
Under a March 23 circular, all retirement, partial disability, total disability, and death or survivor pensioners must adhere in changing their disbursement accounts to PESONet (Philippine Electronic Fund Transfer System and Operations Network) participating banks by March 31 or else the scheduled release of their pension this May would be suspended on April 1, next […]