A YEAR COUNTS 360 IN COMPUTING ACTIVE MILITARY SERVICE
For: CustomsWeek Desk
attn: Inday Varona
c/o Bobby Nazareno
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by: Terence Mordeno Grana
AFTER a series of public hearings and committee meetings, the House HouseCommittee on Veterans Affairs chaired by Party List Representative (Rep.) Eduardo Pilapil, decided to submit over the weekend to Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. its report on House Bill (HB) No. 6081 filed by Catanduanes Rep. Leandro B. Verceles, Jr., otherwise known as “An Act Providing that a Year shall be Counted as Containing Three Hundred Sixty (360) Days in Computing the Length of Active Military Service in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Amending for the Purpose Republic Act (RA) No. 6948 Entitled, ‘An Act Standardizing and Upgrading the Benefits for Military Veterans and Their Dependents’”, recommending its approval without amendment.
In explaining the rationale of his measure, Rep. Verceles said that in computing the length of active military service of veteran soldiers, the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) counts a year as containing three hundred sixty-five (365) days, thus, many veteran soldiers are deprived of pension benefits because their military service fall short of the required number of days.
According to Rep. Verceles, RA 6948 provides for at least a total of cumulative six (6) years of active service in the AFP for entitlement of pension benefits. In computing the length of active military service, Verceles added, the PVAO counts a year as containing 365 days.
He revealed that many veteran soldiers have been deprived of receiving pension benefits by this counting because the PVAO requires a total of 2,190 days for 6 years of military service and many veteran soldiers served only two (2) enlistments (one enlistment requires a soldier to serve in the AFP for 3 years) and found themselves short of a number of days to complete the required 2,190 days.Thus, he concluded that, as a solution to this problem, a year should be counted only 360 days so that in this manners, he added, a six-year term military service will only require 2,190 days to be entitled to pension benefits.
In the latest meeting of the Committee held last week, Chairman Pilapil noted the positive responses of PVAO, represented by Administrator Hector Villacorta and the AFP on the proposal.
The House Committee on Rules is expected to calendar the Report for Plenary deliberation upon resumption of the sessions of Congress on April 19, after the Lenten break.
attn: Inday Varona
c/o Bobby Nazareno
-------------------------
by: Terence Mordeno Grana
AFTER a series of public hearings and committee meetings, the House HouseCommittee on Veterans Affairs chaired by Party List Representative (Rep.) Eduardo Pilapil, decided to submit over the weekend to Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. its report on House Bill (HB) No. 6081 filed by Catanduanes Rep. Leandro B. Verceles, Jr., otherwise known as “An Act Providing that a Year shall be Counted as Containing Three Hundred Sixty (360) Days in Computing the Length of Active Military Service in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Amending for the Purpose Republic Act (RA) No. 6948 Entitled, ‘An Act Standardizing and Upgrading the Benefits for Military Veterans and Their Dependents’”, recommending its approval without amendment.
In explaining the rationale of his measure, Rep. Verceles said that in computing the length of active military service of veteran soldiers, the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) counts a year as containing three hundred sixty-five (365) days, thus, many veteran soldiers are deprived of pension benefits because their military service fall short of the required number of days.
According to Rep. Verceles, RA 6948 provides for at least a total of cumulative six (6) years of active service in the AFP for entitlement of pension benefits. In computing the length of active military service, Verceles added, the PVAO counts a year as containing 365 days.
He revealed that many veteran soldiers have been deprived of receiving pension benefits by this counting because the PVAO requires a total of 2,190 days for 6 years of military service and many veteran soldiers served only two (2) enlistments (one enlistment requires a soldier to serve in the AFP for 3 years) and found themselves short of a number of days to complete the required 2,190 days.Thus, he concluded that, as a solution to this problem, a year should be counted only 360 days so that in this manners, he added, a six-year term military service will only require 2,190 days to be entitled to pension benefits.
In the latest meeting of the Committee held last week, Chairman Pilapil noted the positive responses of PVAO, represented by Administrator Hector Villacorta and the AFP on the proposal.
The House Committee on Rules is expected to calendar the Report for Plenary deliberation upon resumption of the sessions of Congress on April 19, after the Lenten break.
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