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Palace Approves Salary Increase For

Cops And Soldiers In January 2018!
President Rodrigo Duterte approved a salary hike for cops and soldiers.
It will materialize On January 2018.
The plan was initially expected to push through January 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte approved a salary hike for police personnel and soldiers,
effective on January 2018. The President delivered the good news in front of the 1002
Infantry Brigade in Sarangani Province. The increase in pay is indeed a great news to
soldiers whore putting their lives at stake in Marawi City.

By December, youd have doubled your salaries. This August, thats going to start,
Duterte said.

It was December 2016 when the president promised to double the pay of military and
police forces, but it didnt push through in January 2017. According to Budget Secretary
Benjamin Diokno, Dutertes promise would materialize in January 2018.

As far as the military is concerned, we will be able to comply with the desire of the
President to double their take-home pay by January 2018, Diokno said in a Palace
briefing, January this year.

Sooner, if we pass the tax reform [measure], because tax reform would mean reducing
the personal income tax rate from a maximum of 32 percent to 25 percent, he added.

Aside from the expected salary hike next year, Diokno also mentioned another pay hike
for military and police on January 2017 as part of the second tranche of the
governments salary standardization.

We are now in the second tranche of our four-tranche salary adjustment. As you now,
we gave the salary increase last year. And there will be another salary increase this year,
both for civilians, military and police, he said.

The salary increase was formalized through Executive Order 201 approved by former
President Benigno Aquino III after Congress failed to authorize a new Salary
Standardization Law (SSL).

The previous administration had a downpayment in 2016. And we are going to honor it
and in fact But you know, theres some[there] maybe a legal defect because it did
not go through Congress, its just incorporated in the budget, he said.

But [in] 2017, theres already an allocation in the 2017 budget for a salary increase,
second tranche. But we will go to Congress and ask for authority, he added.