DILG to take lead in implementing program for frontline uniformed personnel

May 1, 2020

In observance of Labor Day, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) said they will take the lead in implementing the Comprehensive Social Benefits Program (CSBP) for uniformed personnel who are frontliners during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis.

DLIG spokesperson and Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya said the CSBP covers military and police forces who are killed or wounded in operations sanctioned by the government, and their qualified beneficiaries.

“The issuance of Executive Order 110 institutionalizing the CSBP is very timely as uniformed personnel are among our frontliners against Covid-19. Institutionalizing the CSBP, initiated by the President in 2017, would ensure the continuation of this program as recognition of the sacrifices of our uniformed forces whether during human-induced or natural disasters and threats,” Malaya said.

The EO also covers uniformed personnel of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), as well as members of the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU) or Citizen Active Auxiliary (CAA) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), who become casualties while doing their duties and their qualified beneficiaries.

The EO said CSBP provides speedy, sustainable, and rationalized social benefits and assistance such as but not limited to special financial assistance, scholarship assistance, social welfare assistance, health and medical care assistance, shelter assistance, and employment assistance.

 “The DILG, together with the Department of National Defense (DND), and all other implementing agencies will be further streamlining our rules and regulations so that access to various benefit or assistance of the CSBP will be quickly and efficiently given to beneficiaries,” he said. Ella Dionisio/DMS