28 Hunyo 2021, Lunes
In the news…
P9 B released for health workers’ risk allowance
“The DBM is committed to fulfill its mandate of promoting efficient and effective management of national budget to support its budget priorities while also ensuring that needs of the Filipino people are met, especially of healthcare workers in this time of pandemic,” with just days to go before expiration of Bayanihan 1 pandemic aid law, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has approved release of P9.02 billion to the Department of Health (DOH) to cover special risk allowance or SRA of health workers exposed to COVID.
DBM handed special allotment release order and notice of cash allocation for payment of SRA of public and private health practitioners. This will provide DOH funds to pay them P5,000 per month from Dec. 20, 2020 to June 30 this year 2021.
President Rodrigo Duterte on June 1 signed Administrative Order 42 that grants COVID-19 SRA to health workers exposed by their duty to the virus.
Under this order, SRA will be pro-rated based on the number of days that medical personnel reported for work in a month as certified by the head of hospital, laboratory or quarantine facility.
According to DBM, health workers qualified for SRA can expect to get theirs on or before June 30, 2021.
It noted June 16 joint circular with DOH that funding for SRA will be sourced from Republic Act 11494 or Bayanihan 1, which allocated P13.5 billion for health-related responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Appropriations under stimulus package are scheduled to expire on June 30, the same date for the deadline of release of SRA.
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