Teachers’ Day incentive benefit hike to P3K pushed
MAKATI City Representative Luis Campos Jr. has filed a bill seeking to increase to P3,000 the annual World Teachers’ Day Incentive Benefit (WTDIB) payable to every public school teacher employed by the Department of Education.
Under House Bill No. 7840 filed by Campos, the WTDIB would be bumped up from P1,000 to P3,000.
“Our bill merely seeks to augment the value of the WTDIB and make permanent via legislation the grant of the incentive benefit,” said Campos, vice chair of the House Appropriations Committee.
Campos has cited the mandate of the 1987 Constitution for the State “to ensure that teaching will attract and retain its rightful share of the best available talents through adequate remuneration and other means of job satisfaction and fulfillment.”
To date, public school teachers receive only P1,000 every year as their WTDIB.
The incentive benefit is currently being paid to them every October 5, which is celebrated annually as World Teachers’ Day to pay tribute to those engaged in the teaching profession.
Public school teachers first enjoyed the WTDIB four years ago, when Congress inserted the incentive benefit as an item in the 2019 national budget with an initial funding of P800 million.
This year, the incentive benefit has a funding of P900 million in the 2023 General Appropriations Law.
Congress has provided an aggregate of P4.4 billion in funding for the WTDIB since 2019.
