Question & AnswerQ&A (ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 263)
All government personnel employed full-time, part-time, regular, temporary, casual, or contractual with employment akin to regular status in a specific government entity, as of the milestone anniversary, are entitled.
Government personnel found guilty of any work-related offense during the five-year interval between milestone years are disqualified from receiving the immediately succeeding Anniversary Bonus.
A milestone year refers to the 15th anniversary of the government entity and every fifth year thereafter.
Government entities include departments, bureaus, offices, commissions, GOCCs, and GFIs. Staff bureaus integrated within departments are not separate agencies, but frontline bureaus created by law are treated as distinct agencies.
An employee can receive the Anniversary Bonus only once every five years, regardless of any transfer between government entities.
The maximum amount payable is P3,000 per employee, provided the employee has served at least one year in the same agency at the time of the milestone year.
Yes, if there are insufficient funds, the amount may be lower, but the reduced rate must be uniformly applied to all eligible officials and employees of that government entity.
No, no other bonus or allowance of similar nature relating to the entity's anniversary is allowed under this order.
For national government entities, the cost is sourced from savings from released allotments for current operating expenses after mandatory expenses are paid. For GOCCs and GFIs, the bonus is charged against corporate funds.
The agency head is personally liable for any payment of the Anniversary Bonus not in accordance with the order, including refunding any excess payments made.
Those authorizations are revoked and superseded by this order.
Such cases shall be submitted to the Secretary of Budget and Management for evaluation and recommendation to the Office of the President.
The order took effect immediately upon its adoption on March 28, 1996.