Authorizing the Grant and Release of Fringe Benefit to Justices, Officials and Personnel of the SC, PET, CA, Sandiganbayan and CTA

April 6, 2011

SUPREME COURT MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 18-11

AUTHORIZING THE GRANT AND RELEASE OF FRINGE BENEFIT TO THE JUSTICES, OFFICIALS AND PERSONNEL OF THE SUPREME COURT, PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL, COURT OF APPEALS, SANDIGANBAYAN AND COURT OF TAX APPEALS

WHEREAS, by virtue of, and pursuant to, his authority under the Constitution to augment items in the budget for the Supreme Court and the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) from savings in other items therein and under Joint Resolution No. 1, dated April 3, 1992, of the Constitutional Fiscal Autonomy Group (CFAG) on the use of their savings in the exercise of fiscal autonomy, and pursuant further to CFAG Joint Resolution No. 57, dated March 24, 1999, the Chief Justice may authorize the grant of fringe benefit in the form of Rice Subsidy Allowance to officials and employees of the judiciary to alleviate them from their present economic condition arising from the prevailing economic crisis in the country; caCSDT

WHEREAS, as reported by the Fiscal Management and Budget Office (FMBO) of the Supreme Court, there are sufficient savings from the regular appropriations of the Supreme Court and the PET for the grant of fringe benefit in the concept of a rice subsidy allowance in the amount of FIVE THOUSAND PESOS (P5,000.00) for each of the justices, officials and personnel of the Supreme Court and the PET;

WHEREAS, fringe benefit in the amount of FIVE THOUSAND PESOS (P5,000.00) may likewise be granted to each of the justices, officials and personnel of the three appellate courts (Court of Appeals, Sandiganbayan and Court of Tax Appeals) chargeable against the respective savings from the regular appropriations of the said appellate courts, as certified to by their respective proper officials;

IN VIEW OF THE FOREGOING, the Chief Justice hereby authorizes the grant and release of:

1. FIVE THOUSAND PESOS (P5,000.00) as fringe benefit to each justice, official and personnel of the Supreme Court and the PET, which shall be charged against the respective savings of the Supreme Court and PET; and

2. FIVE THOUSAND PESOS (P5,000.00) as fringe benefit to each justice, official and personnel of the Court of Appeals, Sandiganbayan and Court of Tax Appeals, which shall be charged against the respective savings of the three appellate courts.

The benefit herein granted shall be received in its full amount by those who are in the service for three (3) months or more, as of March 31, 2011, and shall be subject to the implementing guidelines hereto attached.

This Memorandum Order shall take effect immediately and shall forthwith be implemented by the Presiding Justices of the Court of Appeals, the Sandiganbayan and the Court of Tax Appeals, the Clerk of Court of the Supreme Court, the Chiefs of the Office of Administrative Services and the FMBO of the Supreme Court. SIaHTD

Issued this 6th day of April 2011.

(SGD.) RENATO C. CORONAChief Justice