Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 346)
The officials and employees covered are those enumerated in Section 76 of Presidential Decree No. 1177, such as marine officers, engineers and crew of government vessels, lightkeepers and other employees in light stations, officials and employees required to render service within hospitals, penal institutions, leper institutions, military installations, and laborers temporarily fielded to isolate or unsettled districts.
The new daily subsistence allowance rate is increased to P18.00 per day or P6.00 per meal.
The cost of subsistence is payable from any fund only when an appropriation therefor is specifically provided in the General Appropriations Act or other appropriations authorized for supplies and materials.
The order shall take effect not earlier than Calendar Year 1989, depending on the availability of funds or savings from the 1989 appropriations of each agency concerned.
The Department of Budget and Management is responsible for issuing the necessary guidelines to implement the order.
Personnel mentioned include marine officers, engineers, and crew of government vessels, lightkeepers, officials and employees required to render continuous service within institutions (hospitals, penal, leper, military), and laborers temporarily fielded to isolated districts.
The justification was the increase in prices of commodities making the previous rates inadequate to meet the food requirements of the affected government officials and employees.
Executive Order No. 346 aligns the subsistence allowance rates of certain government employees with the increase given to officers and enlisted personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines under Executive Order No. 257, which increased their subsistence allowance from P12.00 to P18.00 per day.