DA-PhilRice is providing financial assistance to all personnel who incur COVID-related expenses in the performance of their duties under the newly created COVID Fund.
Regular staff and other personnel are required to submit necessary documents such as official receipts, travel orders, and trip tickets to avail of the financial assistance.
Executive director Dr. John C. de Leon said the institute’s assistance to COVID-affected staff “will come through 80% reimbursed expenses for testing only (while) each of the branches has initially received P100,000 for the use of their workers. Reimbursements are retroactive to May 12, 2021 when the Board of Trustees (BOT) approved the Fund.”
The fund is allowed under Section 72 of Republic Act 11518 (General Appropriations Act for the Fiscal Year 2021).
A 4-member COVID Fund Screening Committee is in-charge with determining the validity, legality, and limitations of the financial assistance that will be charged to the COVID Fund.
