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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1065
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1065 -
ADJUSTING THE RETIREMENT PENSION OF OFFICERS AND ENLISTED PERSONNEL OR
SURVIVORS OF DECEASED PERSONNEL RETIRED OR SEPARATED PRIOR TO JANUARY
1, 1976
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WHEREAS,
General Order Numbered 11, dated September 30, 1972 providing for an
increased rate of base pay for commissioned officers on active duty
contains a proviso excluding officers who retired from the service
prior to January 1, 1972 from the readjustment of their gratuity or
pension based thereon;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the persons who were excluded from the benefits of said
General Order were mostly officers who, during the bleak year of World
War II defended the Philippines at Bataan, Corregidor, and other war
fronts, many of whom died in the process, many others became disabled,
and the rest were fortunate to survive the war until they retired from
the military service;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, these groups of retirees used to receive automatic
readjustment of gratuity or pension every time a new rate of monthly
base pay is prescribed for officers and enlisted personnel in the
active service, pursuant to the provisions of Republic Act Numbered
Three Hundred and Forty, as amended;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, officers who retired from the military service after December
31, 1975, are now receiving their monthly pensions based on the
existing pay scales of officers in the active service;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, all government retirees in the civil service have recently
been granted increases in their pensions due to the high cost of living
brought about by the spiralling cost of prime commodities;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, Presidential Decree Numbered 854 dated December 22, 1975
provides for the establishment of new rates of monthly base pay of the
officers and enlisted personnel responsive to the present economic
conditions prevailing in the country;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution of the
Philippines and pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21,
1972, General Order No. 1, dated January 17, 1973, do hereby decree and
order that:cralaw:red
Section 1. The rates of retirement pensions of
gratuity of Commissioned officers and enlisted personnel of the Armed
Forces of the Philippines or the survivors of deceased personnel who
retired or were separated prior to January 1, 1976 as provided for in
Republic Act Numbered 340 shall be increased by absolute amounts
equivalent to fifty percentum of the difference between pension rates
for each grade based on military pay prescribed in Presidential Decree
No. 854 and General Order No. 11 including the increase based on Budget
Circular No. 240.
Section 2. The Secretary of National Defense shall
promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement
the intent and purpose of this Decree.
Section 3. The sum of twenty-three million pesos is
hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any funds in the National
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the current budget
of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and shall hereafter be included
in the annual appropriations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines,
provisions of existing laws to the contrary notwithstanding. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 4. This decree shall take effect upon
approval.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 22nd day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and seventy-six.
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