Longevity Pay for AFP Officers and Enlisted Men

Section 1 amends Section 1 of Republic Act No. 1134, as amended.
Section 2 further amends the title of Republic Act No. 1134.
Section 4 repeals or modifies laws inconsistent with Republic Act No. 3725.

Section 1 provides longevity pay as additional compensation for officers and enlisted men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Section 1 ties longevity pay to faithful and efficient service and authorizes the pay in addition to monthly base pay.
Republic Act No. 3725 is enacted to implement longevity pay for AFP personnel under the amended Section 1 of Republic Act No. 1134.

Section 1 covers “each officer or enlisted man of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.”
Section 1 also covers service rendered by “recognized guerrilla units.”
Longevity pay applies to service “heretofore or hereafter rendered” as an officer and/or enlisted man of the AFP and of recognized guerrilla units.

Section 1 provides that each officer or enlisted man shall receive longevity pay in addition to monthly base pay.
Section 1 sets longevity pay at ten per centum of the monthly base pay authorized for the grade for each five years of faithful and efficient service.
Section 1 requires the longevity pay to be “compounded every five years.”
Longevity pay is computed based on monthly base pay authorized for the grade.

Section 1 limits longevity pay so that the total amount shall not exceed fifty per centum of the soldier’s monthly base pay as prescribed by law.

Section 1 provides for back longevity pay to “officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines” for service rendered during January first, nineteen hundred thirty-three to June fifteen, nineteen hundred forty-eight.
Section 1 requires that payment of the back longevity pay for officers be made from the savings acquired from the yearly appropriations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Section 1 bars payment of back longevity pay to “enlisted men” for any period of services heretofore rendered.

Section 3 appropriates eighteen million pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Section 3 directs the appropriation to carry into effect the provisions of Republic Act No. 3725.

Section 4 repeals or modifies all laws or parts thereof inconsistent with Republic Act No. 3725.