Deped Cash Allowance for Teachers may be now released/ paid to eligible teachers

Education Secretary Leonor Briones has allowed the early release of the P5,000 Cash Allowance (CA) to eligible teachers for School Year (SY) 2021-2022.

DepEd Undersecretary for Finance Annalyn Sevilla, in a Facebook post on Thursday, June 17, confirmed this and posted a copy of OUF Memorandum 2021-0412 or the “Advisory on the Processing and Payment of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Cash Allowance to Teachers.”

“The P5,000 cash allowance for implementing units of the Department which have available cash allocation may be now released/paid to eligible teachers,” Sevilla said in the said memorandum dated June 15, 2021.

Additionally, Sevilla noted that the DepEd Regional Offices (ROs) “must ensure that the allotment for the purpose shall be processed and released to Schools Division Offices (SDOs) as soon as possible.”

Moreover, Sevilla said that DepEd ROs and SDOs “shall immediately request from its respective DBM [Department of Budget and Management] – ROs the cash allocation for the payment of the said benefit.”

Citing DBM and DepEd Joint Circular No. 2 s. of 2021, Sevilla explained that the cash allowance “shall be given to entitled public school teachers not earlier than the start of every school year (SY), as stipulated in annual issuance of the School Calendar, or as may be decided by the Education Secretary or his/her designated authority in cases of emergency situations.”

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