Guidelines for LGU Anniversary Bonus Grant

Applies to all local government personnel employed full-time or part-time.
Includes permanent, temporary, casual employees and contractual personnel considered regular employees.
Eligible personnel must have valid appointments in specific LGUs and be employed as of the milestone anniversary.

Employees under preventive suspension or formally charged with administrative cases until exoneration.
Employees with pending criminal or administrative cases related to official duties.
Employees penalized beyond reprimand in connection with work offenses within the last five years before the milestone.
Those absent without leave (AWOL) as of the milestone date.
Personnel no longer serving in the LGU at the time of the milestone or initial bonus payment.
Consultants, experts, student laborers, apprentices, contract laborers, mail contractors, and those paid by honoraria such as barangay officials.

LGUs cover Provinces, Cities, Municipalities, and Barangays.
Founding year based on authentic documents or enabling laws.
Milestone counting starts from original founding or separate creation in case of splits.
For merged LGUs, milestone counting begins from the merger date.
Anniversary Bonus granted only on milestone years: 15th and every 5 years thereafter.
Employees must have rendered at least one-year service in the LGU at milestone date.
Initial 1997 grant only for the latest milestone; no retroactive payments.
Bonus payment capped at P3,000 per employee, subject to fund availability; lower rates allowed if uniformly applied.
No other bonuses or allowances related to LGU anniversaries permitted.

Provincial Governors, City/Municipal Mayors, Barangay Chairmen held liable for non-compliance.
Personal liability for unauthorized bonus payments and obligation to recover excess payments.

Uncovered cases to be submitted to the Secretary of Budget and Management for evaluation and resolution.