It’s tragic when it takes a calamity to speed things up.
“President Benigno Aquino III has ordered the early release of PHP16.05 billion for the year-end bonuses of government employees for the second half of 2013, following the wide-scale devastation caused by Typhoon Yolanda,” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.
A total of 1,209,375 government employees will get one-half of their 13th month pay and a cash gift amounting to PHP5,000. The first half of government employees’ 13th month pay was already released in May this year.
Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Butch Abad said the early release of the year-end cash “will allow government personnel to respond better to the calamity, whether they were directly affected by the disaster or not.”
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