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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 641 -
DIRECTING THE PAYMENT OF CLOTHING ALLOWANCES TO PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS |
The Secretary of Finance
The Commissioner of the Budget
The Chairman, Development Bank of the Philippines
Provincial Governors, City and Municipal Mayors
WHEREAS, female government employees have been allowed clothing allowances to permit them to purchase uniforms;
WHEREAS, due to funding limitations, public school teachers have not been extended the privilege of drawing a clothing allowance;
WHEREAS, notwithstanding the series of three (3) salary increases approved for public school teachers during 1977, teacher salaries continue to be relative low;
NOW THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby issue the following instructions:
1.
All female public school teachers employed by the national government
in the elementary schools and national high schools, shall receive a
clothing allowance of P150 each per annum. The amount involved shall be
charged to savings in the programmed appropriations for current
operating expenditures in the budget of the Department of Education and
Culture.
2. All local
governments are authorized to grant a similar clothing allowance for
teachers in local schools. The cost shall be charged to budgetary
savings of local government units, including savings in amounts
released to them as national government aid for local schools.
3. The grant
of clothing allowances shall be effective in Calendar Year 1978,
provided that a first installment on the CY Clothing Allowance shall be
paid immediately out of budgetary savings in Calendar Year 1977. The
unpaid balance shall be paid from budgetary savings realized in 1978.
Beginning CY 1979, the budget of the Department of Education and
Culture shall provide specifically for the clothing allowance
requirement.
4. Female
teachers in barrio high schools and nursery schools and in community
colleges may likewise draw clothing allowances, chargeable to the same
DEC budgetary savings.
5. Clothing
allowances shall be paid to teachers in cash. The Secretary of
Education and Culture shall issue such guidelines as may be necessary
to ensure uniformity in style, color, type of material, and other
related specifications: Provided, That, in no case shall the guidelines
be so specific as in effect to require the purchase of a specific
manufacturer's product or of a specific brand.
6. The
possibility of a linkage arrangement among the Development Bank of the
Philippines, textile manufacturers, and the national government shall
be explored by the Secretary of Education and Culture, the Commissioner
of the Budget, and the Chairman of the Development of the Philippines,
who shall submit recommendations to the President on the matter.
7. The
Commissioner of the Budget shall issue the rules and regulations
pertaining to the identification and use of savings and to the release
of funds for public school teachers, in the amount of fifty-two
million, five hundred thousand pesos (P52.5 million), more or less, to
meet the requirements of the about 350 thousand school teachers at P150
each per annum.
8. The
Secretary of Finance shall issue the rules and regulations pertaining
to schools supported by local government units.
Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven.
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