Guidelines on Distribution of Vehicle Plates

To provide longevity pay and to credit certain prior U.S. service for commissioned officers (and related categories) who join the Army of the Philippines, including credit for service in the U.S. Army and/or in U.S. Military/Naval Academies.

Commissioned officers of the Army of the United States who are appointed to any commissioned grade in the Regular Force of the Army of the Philippines.

Longevity pay is based on the length of service rendered up to January 1, 1933.

No. It also provides benefits to former U.S. Army officers and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy and U.S. Naval Academy who were appointed to any commissioned grade in the Army of the Philippines prior to the Act’s effectivity.

They must have been appointed to a commissioned grade in the Army of the Philippines prior to the date the Act takes effect.

Service under a regular commission or other active duty with the Army of the Philippines is credited to the same extent as: (1) service as a commissioned officer or enlisted man in the Army of the United States, and/or (2) service as a cadet in the U.S. Military Academy or U.S. Naval Academy.

It requires that such prior service be credited to the same extent as Philippine regular commission or other active duty, for purposes of pay and retirement rights.

It is based on an increase of 10% for every five years of service, compounded every five years.

Longevity pay increases by 10% per every five years, and that increase is compounded every five-year period (i.e., each five-year block builds upon prior increases).

Yes. The increase in longevity pay shall not exceed 50%.

Even if the beneficiary has more than enough years to generate additional 10% increments under the five-year rule, total increase cannot go beyond 50%.

It indicates that longevity pay is calculated as an incremental percentage (subject to compounding and the 50% ceiling) rather than a flat sum.

It authorizes that funds appropriated for the Army of the Philippines in yearly General Appropriation Acts and in the National Defense Act are available to implement the Act.

Upon approval.

Section 2 explicitly mentions commissioned officers and enlisted men in the Army of the United States, and cadets in U.S. Military/Naval Academies; it matters because each category determines which prior service can be credited toward Philippine retirement rights.