Are you excited about the Christmas season this year? It is a piece of good news, if you are a government employee you will receive 5000 pesos Cash Gift. In the spirit of the upcoming Christmas season, government employees nationwide will receive their 14th month-pay (Christmas bonus) and cash gift starting November 15. The year-end bonus is equivalent to a full month’s salary, while the cash gift amounts to 5,000 pesos. A cash gift is a cash allowance given to eligible government employees every November of each year along with a year-end bonus.
Who is entitled to receive a cash gift?
- All positions for civilian personnel whether regular, contractual, or casual in nature, appointive or elective, full-time or part-time, now existing or hereafter created in the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches, the Constitutional Commissions, and other Constitutional Offices, SUCs, and GOCCs covered by the Compensation and Position Classification System (CPCS) under RA No. 6758, as amended by Senate and House of Representatives Joint Resolutions No. 1, series of 1994 and No. 4, series of 2009; and in LGUs; and
Military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines under the Department of National Defense and uniformed personnel of the Philippine National Police, Philippine Public Safety College, Bureau of Fire Protection, and Bureau of Jail Management and Penology of the Department of the Interior and Local Government; Philippine Coast Guard of the Department of Transportation and Communications; and National Mapping and Resource Information Authority of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
Additional Conditions to receive Cash Gift
The cash gift shall be given to entitled government personnel subject to the following conditions:
a. Personnel has rendered at least a total or an aggregate of four (4) months of service from January 1 to October 31 of the current year; and
b. Personnel remains to be in the government service as of October 31 of the same year.
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Not Entitled to Cash Gift
- Job orders and contracts of service workers in the government are not entitled to cash gift.
- Government personnel from agencies, including GOCCs, that are exempted from RA No. 6758, as amended, as expressly provided in their respective enabling law or charter, and are actually implementing their respective CPCS approved by the President of the Philippines;
- Government personnel from GOCCs covered by the CPCS established by the Governance Commission for GOCCs and approved by the President of the Philippines pursuant to RA No. 10149;
- Those hired without employer-employee relationships and funded from non-Personnel Services appropriations/budgets are likewise not entitled to cash gift. Said individuals may include, but not limited to, the following:
- Consultants and experts hired for a limited period to perform specific activities or services with expected outputs;
- Laborers hired through job contracts (pakyaw) and those paid on a piecework basis; and
- Student laborers and apprentices.
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How much is the Cash Gift?
Generally, the Cash Gift is 5000 pesos to all entitled government personnel who rendered at least a total or an aggregate of four (4) months of service from January 1 to October 31 of the current year. However, if the entitled personnel didn’t meet this condition, they will receive a proportional amount based on the table below:
When to receive the Cash Gift?
The 5000 pesos Cash Gift shall be given to entitled government employees not earlier than November 15 of the current year.
