Increasing DFA on Overseas and Living Quarters Allowances of Foreign Service Personnel in Austria, Belgium, France Germany, Japan, Switzerland and Vietnam

February 12, 1979

LETTER OF IMPLEMENTATION NO. 81

INCREASING DFA ON OVERSEAS AND LIVING QUARTERS ALLOWANCES OF FOREIGN SERVICE PERSONNEL IN AUSTRIA, BELGIUM, FRANCE GERMANY, JAPAN, SWITZERLAND AND VIETNAM

 

WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 1285 establishes the Foreign Service Compensation Plan for staff members of the national government who are stationed abroad;

WHEREAS, Letter of Implementation 63 provides the necessary rules and regulations to be observed in the payment of compensation for personnel of the national government stationed abroad;

WHEREAS, Sections 4, 3, 2 of the aforesaid Letter of Implementation 63 authorizes the Permanent Committee created for the purpose of P.D. 1285 to recommend to the President/Prime Minister such adjustments in the MFA index as may be warranted by changes in the exchange rates and price levels in the affected post of assignment;

WHEREAS, in view of the continuing serious decline; in the value of the United States dollar against such currencies as the Austrian schilling, Belgian franc, French franc, German Deutschemark, Japanese yen, Swiss franc and Vietnam dong, officers and employees of the Philippine Foreign Service establishments in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and Vietnam have been experiencing serious financial difficulties resulting from the severe reduction in the purchasing power of the United States dollar;

WHEREAS, such, losses in purchasing power are particularly onerous for officers and employees in the Foreign Service establishments above-mentioned due to the unusually high cost of living in those countries;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President/Prime Minister of the Philippines, do hereby approve the recommendation of the Permanent Committee to increase the MFA Index contained in Letter of Implementation 63 insofar as the overseas and living quarters allowances for the Foreign Service posts in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and Vietnam are concerned, as follows:

Overseas Allowance Living Quarters Allowance

 

Country and Post	From	To	From	To
Austria
Vienna	155%	185%	160%	185%
Belgium
Brussels	155	185	160	185
France
Paris	160	185	160	185
Germany
Bonn	160	195	160	195
Hamburg	160	195		195
Japan
Kobe	160	280	160	280
Tokyo	160	280	160	280
Switzerland
Berne	160	225	160	225
Geneva	160	235	180	235
Vietnam
Hanoi	100	115	-	-

 

This Order shall take effect on 1 September 1978.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 12th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Nine.