An Act Providing For Remuneration, Benefits, Allowances, And Other Entitlements For Frontline Civil Servants At The Barangay Level, Establishing For The Purpose A Magna Carta For Barangay Officials, Personnel And Volunteer Workers, And For Other Purposes

• This bill mandates the creation of a distinct Position Classification and Compensation Scheme for Barangay Officials, Personnel and Volunteer Workers that will govern the dispensation of salaries, honoraria and other benefits and allowances to the manpower complement of the barangay government. It directs the membership of barangay officials, personnel and volunteer workers to the Social Insurance Program of the Government Service Insurance System, the National Health Insurance Program of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, and the Mandatory Membership Program of the Home Development Mutual Fund to ensure that barangay officials, personnel and volunteer workers are covered against insurable financial risks. 
• The bill provides additional benefits to qualified barangay officials, personnel and volunteer workers such as hazard allowances, death and burial benefits, and legal indemnification. 
• To finance this undertaking, this bill shall source funding from the additional proceeds arising from the share of local government units in the national taxes collected by the Bureau of Customs in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court in Mandanas vs. Executive Secretary, G.R. No. 199802 dated July 3, 2018.

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