Comprehensive Social Benefits for AFP, PNP, Support Units

Constitutional and statutory basis

The Order is grounded on Section 5(3), Article XVI of the Constitution, requiring adequate remuneration and benefits for members of the AFP to be a prime State concern.
The Order is also anchored on Section 76 of Republic Act No. 6975 (the “Department of the Interior and Local Government Act of 1990” as amended), which entitles uniformed personnel and/or their heirs to benefits related to death or permanent incapacity.
The Order recognizes Republic Act No. 6963 as granting special financial assistance and benefits to families/beneficiaries of police or military personnel or firemen killed or permanently incapacitated while in duty or by reason of office.
The Order recognizes Executive Order No. 69 (s. 2018) as granting financial support to the CAFGU/CAA in recognition of their role in local peace and order and in addressing local security threats and armed conflicts.
The Order invokes the President’s control authority over executive departments and the mandate to ensure faithful execution of laws under Section 17, Article VII of the Constitution.

Program purpose and guiding policy

Section 1 establishes the Comprehensive Social Benefits Program (CSBP) as a mechanism to provide speedy, sustainable, and rationalized social benefits and assistance.
Section 1 directs that the CSBP benefits cover military, police, and their support units (and other uniformed personnel and CAFGU/CM) who are killed or wounded in a legitimate action or operation sanctioned by the State, and their qualified beneficiaries.
The CSBP provides multiple benefit types, including special financial assistance, scholarship assistance, social welfare assistance, health and medical care assistance, shelter assistance, and employment assistance.
Section 4 requires that CSBP component benefits and assistance be uniform and equal in each type and application, and ensure the most reasonable and rightful amount for each type.
Section 4 expressly states the Order is not intended to create any enforceable right or benefit—substantive or procedural—against the national government, its departments, agencies, entities, or their officers/employees/agents.

Coverage and who is entitled

Section 2 provides CSBP coverage for military and police forces who are killed or wounded in legitimate action or operation sanctioned by the State, and their qualified beneficiaries.
Section 2 extends coverage to uniformed personnel of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG).
Section 2 covers CAFGU/CAA members of the AFP who become casualties while performing their respective duties in legitimate military or police operations, and their qualified beneficiaries.
Section 3 defines “covered personnel” to include military, police, and their support units consisting of other uniformed personnel and CAFGU/CM.
Section 3 limits benefits to casualties arising from the defined legitimate contexts (combat, police operations, disaster response/search and rescue, and related support actions).

Definitions that govern eligibility

Section 3(a) defines “Other uniformed personnel” as the personnel of the BJMP, BFP, and PCG.
Section 3(b) defines Killed-in-Action (KIA) as 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.
Section 3(c) defines Killed-in-Police-Operation (KIPO) as covered personnel killed in a legitimate police operation.
Section 3(d) defines Wounded-in-Action (WIA) as covered personnel wounded in the line of duty in a legitimate combat operation or related military action in support of police operations.
Section 3(e) defines Wounded-in-Police-Operation (WIPO) as covered personnel wounded in a legitimate police operation.
Section 3(f) defines Total Permanent Physical Disability (TPPD) as anatomical loss or permanent loss of use of specified body parts (including one/both hands, one/both feet or both legs, one/both eyes with only light perception), or impairment of mental faculties or physical function, directly resulting from injury incurred during legitimate combat or related military/police operations, rendering the covered personnel indefinitely incapable of substantially performing mandated duties and functions of the position.
Section 3(g) defines “Beneficiary” as dependent/survivor eligible to receive benefits, including:
- Section 3(g)(i) the legal spouse of a married covered personnel, except where legally separated by judicial decree not on grounds caused by or attributable to the receiving spouse;
- Section 3(g)(ii) legitimate, acknowledged or adopted children, with entitlement terminating when children attain twenty-one (21) years of age or get married, except where children are incapable of employment by reason of mental incapacity;
- Section 3(g)(iii) parents of covered personnel, or if both parents are deceased, unmarried siblings, grandparents or grandchild in successive order; and
- Section 3(g)(iv) other beneficiaries under existing laws, including a partner cohabiting with the covered personnel, provided there is no impediment to marry each other.

Benefit components under CSBP

Section 4 provides CSBP benefits are subject to existing laws, rules and regulations.
Section 4(a) provides Special Financial Assistance (SFA) as a lump sum amount for:
- KIA/KIPO personnel,
- WIA/WIPO personnel with TPPD, and
- **WIA/WIPO personnel with major and minor injuries.
Section 4(b) provides social welfare assistance through enrollment in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program - Modified Conditional Cash Transfer under DSWD, or in lieu thereof, a monthly rice subsidy of twenty (20) kilos or its cash equivalent based on prevailing market price.
Section 4(c) provides shelter assistance via:
- a housing unit in existing AFP or PNP housing sites, or
- construction of a housing unit on the beneficiary’s land, or
- financial assistance for repair of an existing housing unit, coordinated with the National Housing Authority (NHA) of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development.
Section 4(d) provides health and medical care assistance through payment of PhilHealth premiums, medical assistance for hospitalization, and provision of maintenance medicines from the Department of Health (DOH).
Section 4(e) provides educational assistance to a maximum of two (2) children or other qualified beneficiaries of the KIA/KIPO personnel or WIA/WIPO personnel with TPPD, provided they are not covered by existing scholarship programs of the AFP - Educational Benefits Systems Office, the NAPOLCOM, and the DND - CHED - Philippine Association of State Colleges and Universities Study Grant Program.
Section 4(f) provides employment assistance as reasonable assistance for employment of the beneficiaries of KIA/KIPO personnel and WIA/WIPO personnel with TPPD, facilitated by D1LG or DND.
Section 4 allows the CSBP’s component benefits and assistance to be adjusted, modified, or removed based on availability of funds, or upon the instruction of the President, as recommended by the government agencies implementing the CSBP.
Section 4 allows beneficiaries to still avail of other forms of assistance from other government agencies—such as welfare subsidy, skills training on financial literacy and entrepreneurship, and livelihood and employment programs—subject to compliance with existing laws, rules and regulations.

Implementation responsibilities and integration

Section 5 makes the DILG and DND jointly lead in implementing the CSBP.
Section 5 requires coordination and integration among implementing agencies, including DPWH, DepEd, DBM, DOLE, DOH, DTI, DSWD, CHED, TESDA, BSP, NHA, PhilHealth, NAPOLCOM, AFP, and PNP.
Section 5 requires all implementing agencies/offices to streamline their rules and regulations governing access to each CSBP component benefit or assistance under their respective mandates, consistent with relevant laws, rules, and regulations.

Regional delivery through RWGs

Section 6 requires creating Regional Working Groups (RWGs) in each administrative region to assist national agencies in implementing the CSBP.
Section 6 directs RWGs to ensure effective and efficient delivery of CSBP benefits at the local level.
Section 6(a) provides each RWG includes Regional Directors of DILG, DPWH, DepEd, DOLE, DOH, DTI, DSWD, CHED, TESDA, BSP, NHA, PhilHealth, NAPOLCOM, and PNP.
Section 6(b) provides each RWG includes personnel officers of the AFP and commanders of the AFP major services, unified commands, and other major ground units.

Funding, reports, and monitoring

Section 7 provides that CSBP implementation funding is sourced from existing appropriations of implementing agencies for CSBP components and other appropriate funding sources the DBM identifies, in coordination with DILG and DND, subject to existing budgeting, accounting, and auditing laws and regulations.
Section 7 requires funding for succeeding years to be included in the respective budgets of government agencies implementing the CSBP.
Section 8 requires concerned agencies to submit biannual implementation and budget utilization reports on CSBP status to DILG and DND, with a copy to be furnished to the Presidential Management Staff and the DBM.
Section 8 requires DILG and DND to ensure CSBP benefits reach intended beneficiaries, monitor and evaluate effectiveness of program implementation, and submit an annual report to the Office of the President through the Office of the Executive Secretary.

Separability and repeal

Section 9 provides separability: if any part or provision of the Order is held unconstitutional or invalid, unaffected parts remain in full force and effect.
Section 10 provides that all other issuances inconsistent with the Order are repealed or modified accordingly.