Authorizing the Release of Emergency Economic Assistance to Officials and Personnel of SC, PET, CA, Sandiganbayan and CTA

October 19, 2012

SUPREME COURT MEMORANDUM ORDER NO. 36-12

AUTHORIZING THE RELEASE OF EMERGENCY ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO OFFICIALS AND PERSONNEL OF THE SUPREME COURT, PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL, COURT OF APPEALS, SANDIGANBAYAN, AND THE COURT OF TAX APPEALS

On the basis of the report of the Fiscal Management and Budget Office, Supreme Court (FMBO-SC), that enough savings from the regular appropriations for the Supreme Court and the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) have been generated which may be utilized to grant fringe benefits pursuant to Constitutional Fiscal Autonomy Group (CFAG) Joint Resolution No. 1, dated April 3, 1992, on the use of their savings in the exercise of fiscal autonomy, and pursuant further to CFAG Joint Resolution No. 96, dated November 25, 2009, the Chief Justice hereby authorizes the grant of Emergency Economic Assistance (EEA) in the amount equivalent to one month basic salary but not less than P10,000.00, chargeable against the respective savings from the regular appropriations of the Supreme Court and the PET, for each of the justices, officials and personnel of the Supreme Court and the PET, provided they are in the service as of October 31, 2012. For this purpose, prior service in the Senate Electoral Tribunal and/or the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal shall be deemed service in the Supreme Court and/or PET, provided that their service in the two said Electoral Tribunals is continued in the Supreme Court or PET as of the date of the issuance of this Memorandum Order.

EEA in the same amount as the foregoing benefit is likewise granted to each of the justices, officials and personnel of the 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.

The grant of EEA shall be subject to the implementing guidelines hereto attached.

The Clerk of Court, the Chiefs of the FMBO and the Office of Administrative Services, Supreme Court shall work together to immediately implement this Memorandum Order.

Likewise, the Presiding Justices of the Court of Appeals, Sandiganbayan and the Court of Tax Appeals shall implement this Memorandum Order insofar as their respective courts are concerned.

This Memorandum Order shall take effect upon its issuance.

Issued this 19th day of October, 2012.

(SGD.) MARIA LOURDES P. A. SERENOChief Justice