Politics · Philippines Bureau
Only 2 of 315 agencies received 2024 performance bonuses so far
The Department of Budget and Management says just two government agencies have received their 2024 Performance-Based Bonus allocations, raising concerns about delays in distributing employee incentives across the bureaucracy.
LSN Philippines ·
MANILA — The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released performance bonus funds to only two out of 315 government agencies as of early November, according to data from the department's online tracking system.
The DBM released a Special Allotment Release Order (SARO) on October 29 for Central Luzon State University, marking one of the first agencies to receive 2024 Performance-Based Bonus (PBB) funding. The tracker, made public on November 6, showed the slow pace of disbursement across the government's vast bureaucratic structure.
The Performance-Based Bonus is an incentive scheme designed to reward government employees based on agency performance metrics and individual contributions. The significant backlog in processing and releasing these funds suggests thousands of civil servants nationwide remain awaiting their performance bonuses.
The delays underscore challenges in the government's budget execution process, particularly in processing individual allocations across hundreds of agencies. Observers expect the remaining 313 agencies to eventually receive their allocations, though no timeline for full disbursement has been announced by the DBM.
Government employees and agency heads have increasingly sought updates on the bonus distribution schedule amid uncertainty over when remaining allocations will be processed and released.