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Introduced by SENATOR LACSON 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill seeks to upgrade the retirement benefits now found in various 
retirement laws for Members of the Constitutional Commissions, and the 
Ombudsman, by adding survivorship benefits for the surviving legitimate spouse 
of the said retirees. Said benefit will be equivalent to the monthly pension of the 
deceased retiree's lifetime pension. 
Survivorship pension originally was an integral part of the retirement 
system for the Armed Forces of the Philippines. But this feature has been 
included in the revised general retirement system for civilian personnel 
administeied by the GSIS by Presidential Decree No. 1146 since 1977. 
The enactment of this bill would be in consonance with the 1987 
Constitution provision on the upgrading of retirement benefits (Article XVI, 
Section 8). It is also in keeping with the public purpose or rationale of the 
legislative grant of old age retirement pensions to qualified civil servants - To 
entice capable men/women of proven probity, integrity and independence to enter 
and remain in the government service, especially in highly sensitive offices, 
discharging their duties faithfully and eflciently. Liberal retirement benefits 
would assure them a life of relative security after rendering almost a lifetime of 
public service, when they have lost their vigor or are already old or incapacitated 
by illness or other disability. 
In view thereof, the early passage of this bill is earnestly recommended. 


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SENATE, 
Senate Bill No. 5099 
Introduced by SENATOR LACSON 
AN ACT 
PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF SURVIVORSHIP BENEFITS TO 
THE SURVIVING LEGITIMATE SPOUSE OF A DECEASED RETIRED 
MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION ON AUDIT, CIVIL SERVICE 
COMMISSION, COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, AND THE 
OMBUDSMAN AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the 
Philippines in Congress assembled. 
SECTION 1. In case of death of a retired Chairman or Commissioner of 
the Commission on Audit, the Commission on Elections, the Civil Service 
Commission, and the Ombudsman, the surviving legitimate spouse of said 
deceased retiree shall be entitled to receive on a monthly basis all the retirement 
benefits that the said deceased retiree was receiving at the time of hidher demise 
under the provisions of applicable retirement laws then in force. 
The said 
surviving legitimate spouse shall continue to receive such retirement benefits 
during hisher lifetime or until he/she remarries. 
SEC. 2. Funds for the initial implementation of this Act shall be taken out 
of the current appropriations for the retirement benefits of the Chairman and 
Commissioners of the Constitutional Commissions as well as the Ombudsman 
and/or savings of said Constitutional Commissions and the Ombudsman. 
Thereafter, such sums as may be necessary for the continued implementation 
hereof shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act. 
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect after thirty (30) days following the 
completion of its publication in the Official Gazette or in two (2) newspapers of 
general circulation. 
Approved,