2016 TVC HIGHLIGHTS: 1. R.A. 10653 – Increasing the Tax-Exemption Cap for the 13th Month Pay, Christmas Bonus and Other Benefits from P30,000 to P82,000 – February 12, 2015 2. R.A. 10157 – Free Kindergarten Act – January 20, 2012 3. R.A. 10692 –

Senate of the Philippines Ralph G. Recto Senate President Pro-Tempore January 18, 2016 Sen. Antonio F. Trillanes IV Chairperson Committee on Civil Service and Government Reorganization Senate of the Philippines Financial Center, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City Dear Senator Trillanes:

No to ‘magna cutting’ of benefits – Recto Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto today appealed to the Palace to consider endorsing his proposed amendments to the Salary Standardization Law IV (SSL IV) in order to thwart the possible scrapping of Magna Carta benefits being

Death penalty must be imposed for those involved in large-scale drug trafficking, including military and police officials who coddle and conspire with them. Although I am fundamentally against capital punishment, the impunity by which men in uniform coddle and align themselves

Instead of a pay hike, 99 percent of Department of Science and Technology (DOST) personnel will get a pay cut on the first year of the implementation of the proposed Salary Standardization Law IV (SSL IV), due to a provision there which threatens to repeal all Magna Carta for

Not just a balikbayan box, but can also be a balikbayan van. Overseas Filipinos returning to the Philippines for good are also entitled to ship home tax-free up to P350,000 worth of personal and household effects, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto, author of the Balikbayan

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today hailed the passage of the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA) which raises to P150,000 the tax-exempt value of pasalubong cargo brought in or sent by overseas Filipinos. Although the provision on the tax treatment of

Excerpts from Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto’s Sponsorship Speech of the SSS Pension Hike Bill INCREASE MEMBERSHIP BASE Pagpapalaganap na ang pagiging miyembro ng SSS ay magandang investment na malaki ang balik sa puhunan. With regard to funding the higher benefits,

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto is urging newly-appointed Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Roberto Cabrera to familiarize himself with the “legally-binding” commitments LTO has made in the national budget for 2016 so he would know the agency’s deliverables. Recto

Government was told to fill a “significant portion” of the officially reported 218,639 job vacancies in national government offices in order to ease joblessness, especially among the youth, which accounts for one in three unemployed. The call was made by Senate President