Senate panel approves P5,000 annual teaching supplies allowance bill
A bill granting an annual P5,000 annual teaching supplies allowance for public school teachers, has been approved by a joint Senate panel.
The approval of Senate Bill No. 1092 was contained in Committee Report No. 14 prepared by the committees on civil service, basic education, ways and means, and finance. This was signed by 20 senators.
When this bill signed into law, all public school teachers would receive a P5,000 teaching supplies allowance per school year.
Funds would be sourced from the budget of the Department of Education (P2, 500 from its current appropriation and another P2,500 from its available funds or savings) in the first year of its implementation.
“Thereafter, the amount of P5,000 per teacher per school year shall be included in the DepEd budget for the Teaching Supplies Allowance under the General Appropriations Act,” as stated in the bill.
The granting of the said teaching supplies allowance would be limited only to teachers, who are engaged in actual teaching in public basic education. The measure has been submitted for plenary debates.
