QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 3)
It increases the rates of Combat Duty Pay and Combat Incentive Pay for AFP personnel and extends the same allowances to uniformed PNP personnel, amending EO No. 38 (s. 2011), to improve the living conditions of those engaged in actual combat.
Three Thousand Pesos (₱3,000.00) per month.
AFP Combat Duty Pay was ₱500.00 per month, while PNP’s maximum Combat Duty Pay was ₱340.00 per month (as stated in the Whereas clauses).
AFP officers and enlisted personnel must be performing combat duties/activities; PNP uniformed personnel must be engaged in actual police operations as defined in regulations to be issued by the Secretary of National Defense and the National Police Commission, respectively.
The operation must be covered by a specific combat mission duly covered by an AFP OPORD or FRAG-O.
A Mission Order for the PNP.
They must be in the published task organization of the AFP OPORD/FRAG-O or the PNP Mission Order.
Three Hundred Pesos (₱300.00) per day.
It shall not exceed Three Thousand Pesos (₱3,000.00) per month.
It is additional. EO No. 03 states that the Combat Incentive Pay is over and above the Combat Duty Pay of ₱3,000.00 for qualified AFP and qualified PNP personnel.
From the Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund.
Succeeding funding shall be included in the specific budgets of the AFP and PNP in the General Appropriations Act, provided that the actual roster of military and uniformed personnel is submitted to the DBM.
It serves as the basis for allocating funds for the purpose in succeeding years.
It takes effect starting 01 September 2016.
If any provision is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected remain valid and subsisting.
It revokes, amends, or modifies all executive orders, rules, regulations, and other parts inconsistent with EO No. 03.
To justify the State’s prime concern for professionalism in the armed forces and adequate remuneration and benefits of its members, especially those engaged in combat-related duties.