Teachers shut off from state workers’ fund

THOUSANDS of public school teachers nationwide stand to lose their lawful share from programmed appropriations, agency savings and the P117 billion miscellaneous personnel benefit fund lump sum allotment in this year’s national budget, a teachers’ group said on Monday.

According to the Action and Solidarity for the Empowerment of Teachers (Assert), some 600,000 public school teachers and instructors of vocational-technical schools, learning centers and state universities and colleges will not benefit from the state workers fund if concerned education and budget agencies continue to ignore appeals to enforce laws and regulations providing special hardship and hazard pay to teacher beneficiaries in times of difficulties and calamities.