QuestionsQuestions (PROCLAMATION NO. 125)
RA 577 amends Sections 2 and 3 of RA 65, expanding/clarifying the educational benefit provisions and the deadline for signifying intent to study.
Officers and enlisted men in good standing of the Philippine Army and members of recognized or deserving guerrilla organizations who actively participated in the resistance and/or liberation drive against the enemy, and who desire to study; also, one child of such veteran in whose favor the veteran renounces the right.
It means the entitlement to the educational benefit may be transferred so that only one child may receive the benefit, provided the veteran formally renounces the right in the child’s favor.
Admission is granted upon certification of the Chairman of the Philippine Veterans Board.
It includes all school fees enumerated: tuition, matriculation, athletic, library, laboratory, medical, ROTC, diploma, and graduation fees.
The length of the veteran’s war-time service between December 8, 1941 and December 2, 1945, plus one school year, with a minimum of two school years.
In no case less than two school years.
A school year means four quarters or two semesters and one summer.
The Board may, in its discretion, allow the veteran to finish the course depending on his scholastic standing.
If he is enrolled only in the elementary grades or in the high school.
Yes. The law expressly states the educational benefit may be utilized for review courses such as the pre-bar and the CPA reviews.
Yes, but only if the Board, in its discretion and for plausible reasons, authorizes the change.
No private school, college, or institute can be compelled to accept any number exceeding 25% of its entire enrollment.
Not later than July 31, 1951.
The Chairman of the Philippine Veterans Board.
Upon its approval on September 12, 1950.