Increase Combat Duty and Incentive Pay

The Executive Order is issued by the President pursuant to the powers vested by the Constitution and existing laws.
It amends Executive Order No. 38 (s. 2011) to increase the combat-related allowances it covers.

The Executive Order implements the State concern for professionalism and adequate remuneration and benefits for members of the armed forces.
It is intended to improve the living conditions of men in uniform engaged in combating threats to national security and public peace and order.

Section 1 fixes the Combat Duty Pay of officers and enlisted personnel of the AFP and uniformed personnel of the PNP at Three Thousand Pesos (P3,000.00) per month.
Section 2 entitles AFP officers and enlisted personnel to Combat Duty Pay when they are performing combat duties/activities.
Section 2 entitles PNP uniformed personnel to Combat Duty Pay when they are engaged in actual police operations.
The entitlement in Section 2 is limited to combat duties/activities and actual police operations as defined in regulations to be issued by the Secretary of National Defense and the National Police Commission, respectively.

Section 3 grants AFP members and PNP uniformed personnel who “figure directly in actual combat” against members of various insurgent, terrorist and lawless elements an additional Combat Incentive Pay of Three Hundred Pesos (P300.00) per day.
The incentive is subject to the following conditions in Section 3:
- (a) the operation must be for a specific combat mission duly covered by an OPORD or FRAG-O for the AFP or a Mission Order for the PNP;
- (b) the personnel involved in combat must be in the published task organization of the AFP OPORD/FRAG-O or the PNP Mission Order;
- (c) the total additional Combat Incentive Pay for each individual must not exceed Three Thousand Pesos (P3,000.00) per month.
Section 3 provides that the Combat Incentive Pay is over and above the Combat Duty Pay of P3,000.00 for qualified AFP officers and enlisted personnel and qualified PNP uniformed personnel.

Section 4 requires that the initial funding requirement to implement the Executive Order be drawn from the Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund.
Section 4 directs that succeeding funding for this purpose be included in the specific budgets of the AFP and PNP in the General Appropriations Act.
Section 4 conditions succeeding budget inclusion on submission of the actual roster of military and uniformed personnel of the AFP and PNP to the Department of Budget and Management.
Section 4 states that the validated list shall be the basis for allocating funds in succeeding years.

Section 5 provides separability: if any provision is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected remain valid and subsisting.
Section 6 revokes, amends, or modifies all executive orders, rules and regulations, and other parts thereof, that are inconsistent with the Executive Order.