Guidelines on Permits for Para-Teachers

Eligibility and retirement benefits

Section 2 allows any covered uniformed officer (Police) or uniformed officer or fireman (Fire) with twenty or more years of continuous and satisfactory service to take the benefits and retire from active service upon approval by the President of the Philippines.
Section 2 requires that, upon retirement, the retiree shall receive a monthly pension in accordance with the schedule in Section 3.
Section 2 provides survivor benefits: upon the death of a covered person who is retired, or who would have been entitled due to service, the surviving spouse and legitimate, acknowledged, or illegitimate minor children receive the benefits in equal shares.
Section 2 limits surviving spouse benefits when there are no minor children: the surviving spouse receives fifty per centum of the pension the deceased would have received if he had not died.
Section 2 bars payments to children after they all attain age twenty-one or after they have married, and bars payments to the surviving spouse if the surviving spouse remarries.

Pension computation and special disability/death

Section 3 bases the pension amount on the date of retirement and on the highest basic annual salary or compensation received while in service.
Section 3 establishes the standard formula: the monthly annuity or pension equals two and one-half per centum of the monthly basic pay of the highest recognized rank, grade, or rating (whether on permanent or temporary appointment) satisfactorily held, multiplied by the number of years of active service creditable.
Section 3 requires counting service fractions: fractions one-half year or more of active service are counted as a whole year for computation.
Section 3 provides disability/death-in-line-of-duty benefits: if the covered officer becomes unable to perform regular duties or to discharge regular duties due to physical or total mental disability incurred in line of duty and not due to vicious or immoral habits, or if he dies in line of duty, the annuity or pension follows specific schedules.
Section 3 sets death-in-line-of-duty and certain incapacity benefits: heirs (as established in Section 2) receive the equivalent of fifty per centum of the deceased’s highest basic annual salary in the same proportion mentioned in Section 2, subject to Section 2 limits on age and marriage.
Section 3 sets additional incapacity benefits: for loss or total incapacity of two arms or two legs, two eyes or one leg and one arm, heirs receive the equivalent of fifty per centum as described in Section 3.
Section 3 sets mental disability/other qualifying medical incapacity: for insanity or total mental disability or other incurable diseases not due to vicious or immoral habits that prevent continued active service, the beneficiary receives an annuity or life pension equivalent to fifty per centum of the officer’s highest basic annual salary.
Section 3 sets partial loss benefits: for the loss of one leg or one arm, the officer receives an annuity or pension equivalent to twenty-five per centum of the highest basic annual salary while in service.

Local pension boards and appeal

Section 4 creates a pension board in each and every Chartered City.
Section 4 mandates board composition: City Mayor as Chairman; a member of the Municipal Board designated by that body; City Treasurer; City Auditor; Chief of Police; and Chief of the Fire Department.
Section 4 provides quorum and voting requirements: a majority of members constitutes a quorum, and affirmative votes of three members are necessary to approve or disapprove an application.
Section 4 states that the Board’s decision is final unless appealed to the Secretary of the Interior within three months from receipt of the Board’s decision.
Section 4 directs the Department of the Interior to cause preparation of rules, regulations, and necessary forms for uniformity, with mandatory effect.

Annual appropriation and pension fund crediting

Section 5 requires that each Chartered City, starting with the year of approval of the Act, includes in its annual appropriation ordinance a sum of not less than five thousand pesos for the Police and Fire Departments.
Section 5 directs that this minimum amount be credited to the Police and Fire pension fund and be set aside for payments of pensions under the Act.
Section 5 creates a special Manila requirement: for the City of Manila, not less than one hundred thousand pesos must be added to the total appropriation for Manila Police and Fire Departments and credited to the Manila Police and Fire pension fund.

Payment method and pension suspension on reemployment

Section 6 requires that pensions approved and granted under the Act be paid monthly by government warrant or other means that guarantee safe delivery and require no reduction in pension due to exchange or transmission.
Section 6 suspends pension payments if pensioners are re-employed in government service and receiving salary, pay, or compensation for services as employees of any branch of government including cities, municipalities, and provinces in the Philippines.
Section 6 provides the suspension threshold: pension is discontinued for the period of employment when the pay, salary, or compensation is equal to or greater than fifty per centum of the pension received under the Act.

Mandatory retirement at age 60

Section 7 requires that eligibles who have attained sixty years of age and have rendered at least twenty years of continuous and satisfactory service undergo compulsory retirement.
Section 7 allows an exception when the person requests to remain in service.
Section 7 limits continuation to cases where the Chief of Police or Chief of the Fire Department, as the case may be, specifically recommends favorable action because of the person’s physical capacity to perform the work.

Insurance option and exclusivity of benefits

Section 8 allows a person entitled to benefits who is already insured with the Government Service Insurance System to continue such insurance.
Section 8 requires that the insured option assumes payment of the premium of the insurance, including the contribution of the Government.
Section 8 makes pension fund contribution compulsory and requires that deductions from monthly or semi-monthly payrolls be noted in the Police or Fire Department payrolls, as the case may be.
Section 8 excludes overlapping benefits: no person entitled to benefits under the Act is entitled to any benefit provided for in other Acts.

Effectivity

Section 9 provides that the Act takes effect on approval.
The Act was approved on June 17, 1950.