QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 110)
It is anchored on: (1) Section 5(3), Article XVI of the Constitution (adequate remuneration and benefits for AFP members as a prime concern of the State); and (2) the President’s control and the faithful execution of laws under Section 17, Article VII of the Constitution, while also recognizing related statutes on benefits for uniformed personnel (e.g., RA 6975 and RA 6963) and prior issuances.
The CSBP is institutionalized as a mechanism to provide speedy, sustainable, and rationalized social benefits and assistance to military, police, and their support units (and qualified beneficiaries) who are killed or wounded in legitimate actions/operations sanctioned by the State.
The CSBP provides, among others: special financial assistance; scholarship assistance; social welfare assistance; health and medical care assistance; shelter assistance; and employment assistance.
It covers military and police forces (and qualified beneficiaries) who are killed or wounded in legitimate State-sanctioned operations; it also covers uniformed personnel of BJMP, BFP, and PCG, and CAFGU/CAA members of the AFP who become casualties in the performance of duties in legitimate military or police operations, including their qualified beneficiaries.
KIA refers to a covered personnel killed in the line of duty in a legitimate combat operation, disaster response, search and rescue activities, and/or related military action in support of police operations.
KIPO refers to a covered personnel killed in a legitimate police operation.
WIA covers wounds in the line of duty in a legitimate combat operation or related military action in support of police operations; WIPO covers wounds in a legitimate police operation.
TPPD is defined as anatomical loss or permanent loss of use of specified body parts (e.g., hands/feet/legs/eyes with described conditions), or impairment of mental faculties or physical function, resulting from injuries incurred in a legitimate combat or related military/police operation, rendering the covered personnel indefinitely incapable of substantially performing mandated duties.
Beneficiary includes: (1) legal spouse (with the exception regarding judicial separation not caused by the receiving spouse); (2) legitimate/acknowledged/adopted children (entitlement generally ends at 21 or upon marriage, except for children incapable of employment due to mental incapacity); (3) parents (or, if both parents are deceased, unmarried siblings, grandparents or grandchild in successive order); and (4) other beneficiaries under existing laws such as a cohabiting partner without impediment to marry.
SFA is a lump sum amount provided to KIA/KIPO personnel, WIA/WIPO personnel with TPPD, and WIA/WIPO personnel with major and minor injuries.
It is enrollment in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program – Modified Conditional Cash Transfer under DSWD; in lieu thereof, a monthly rice subsidy of 20 kilos or its cash equivalent based on prevailing market price.
Shelter assistance may be a housing unit in existing AFP/PNP housing sites, or construction of a unit in the beneficiary’s land, or financial assistance to repair an existing housing unit—coordinated with the National Housing Authority (NHA).
It provides payment of PhilHealth premiums and medical assistance for hospitalization, plus provision of maintenance medicines from the Department of Health (DOH).
Educational assistance is for a maximum of two (2) children or other qualified beneficiaries of the KIA/KIPO personnel or WIA/WIPO personnel with TPPD. It also requires that the beneficiaries are not covered by existing scholarship programs of the AFP-EBSo and NAPOLCOM, and the DND-CHED-Philippine Association of State Colleges and Universities Study Grant Program.
The DILG and DND jointly lead implementation. They coordinate with agencies including DPWH, DepEd, DBM, DOLE, DOH, DTI, DSWD, CHED, TESDA, BSP, NHA, PhilHealth, NAPOLCOM, AFP, and PNP.
RWGs are created per administrative region to assist the national government agencies in implementing CSBP and delivering benefits at the local level; they include regional directors of listed national agencies and personnel officers/commanders of AFP and PNP units.
Funding comes from existing appropriations of implementing agencies for the component benefits, plus other appropriate funding sources identified by DBM in coordination with DILG and DND, subject to budgeting, accounting, and auditing laws. Succeeding-year funding is to be included in the implementing agencies’ budgets.
EO 110 states that it is not intended to create any right or benefit—substantive or procedural—enforceable at law by any beneficiary against the national government and its agencies/officers/employees.