Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
19th CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO.  ____ 
___________________________________________________________________________ 
Introduced by REP. BERNADETTE “DETTE” G. ESCUDERO 
___________________________________________________________________________ 
AN ACT 
INSTITUTIONALIZING A COMPREHENSIVE SOCIAL BENEFITS PROGRAM 
FOR UNIFORMED PERSONNEL AND OTHER QUALIFIED AUXILIARY SERVICE 
MEMBERS WHO ARE KILLED, WOUNDED, OR RENDERED PHYSICALLY 
DISABLED IN LEGITIMATE ACTIONS OR OPERATIONS, CREATING FOR THE 
PURPOSE A COMPREHENSIVE SOCIAL BENEFITS PROGRAM TRUST FUND, 
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill finds its roots in Presidential Decree No. 5771, Republic Act No. 69632, 
Executive Order No. 69 s.20183, Executive Order No. 110 s.20204 and other issuances that 
sought to provide benefits to members of uniformed services who are killed, injured or rendered 
physically disabled in the performance of their duties in legitimate government actions and 
operations. 
Given the sad state of our military and police in terms of compensation and benefits 
vis-à-vis their sworn duty to protect and secure the State, and preserve and maintain peace and 
order, it is but imperative that a comprehensive and institutional assistance be accorded to them 
by the State.  
The officers, men and women of the uniformed services deserve nothing less than a 
reasonable and tangible recognition of their dedication and commitment to the country, 
especially their families who, when they are killed, wounded, or rendered physically disabled 
in action or operation, are somewhat left hollow both emotionally, spiritually and financially. 
As such, drawing from the salient features of Executive Order 110 s. 2020, this bill seeks to 
institutionalize the Comprehensive Social Benefits Program (CSBP) in a manner that would 
1 Presidential Decree. No. 577 “Exempting Dependents of Military Personnel who Die or Become 
Incapacitated in Line of Duty From the Payment of Tuition and Matriculation Fees in Public or Private 
Schools, Universities, Colleges, and Other Educational Institutions.” November 11, 1974 
2 Republic Act No. 6963 “An Act Granting Special Financial Assistance and Benefits to The Family or 
Beneficiary of Any Police or Military Personnel or Fireman Killed or Permanently Incapacitated While in 
The Performance of His Duty or By Reason of His Office or Position and For Other Purposes.” September 4, 
1990 
3 Executive Order No. 69 “Granting Financial Support to the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit Active 
Auxiliary Service.” December 4, 2018 
4 Executive Order No. 110 “Institutionalizing the Comprehensive Social Benefits Program.” April 7, 2020 
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make the program more inclusive, its delivery more expedited, and its benefits more attuned to 
present needs. 
To make the program more inclusive, this proposed measure expands the program 
coverage in two ways. First, the bill includes other uniformed personnel such as those from the 
Bureau of Corrections among the possible beneficiaries under the program. Second, the bill 
seeks to provide the same benefits under the program to uniformed personnel who suffered 
death, injury or physical disability prior to the effectivity of the proposed measure. These twin 
interventions ensure that uniformed personnel who are confronted by perils in their line of work 
are provided with social and financial safety nets especially when they are killed, injured or 
rendered physically disabled in the line of duty. 
To make delivery more expedited, the bill creates a trust fund where the benefits to be 
provided under the CSBP can be drawn. Essentially, this bill earmarks 20 billion pesos in a 
trust fund to finance and make available various forms of assistance to qualified uniformed 
personnel and auxiliary service members and their beneficiaries, which includes: a) Special 
Financial Assistance; b) Educational Assistance; c) Shelter Assistance; d) Health and Medical 
Care Assistance; (e) Social Welfare and Cost of Living Assistance; and (f) Employment 
Assistance. This fund shall also be implemented and managed by a Comprehensive Benefit 
Program Fund Board comprised of government finance managers, social service providers, and 
the uniformed services concerned to ensure that the aforementioned assistance are provided to 
qualified beneficiaries in a timely manner. 
Finally, the bill likewise seeks to expand the actual benefits provided under the CSBP. 
It seeks to extend the provision of educational assistance to cover ancillary educational 
expenses such as transportation, board and lodging, books and living expenses. It also enlarges 
the scope of shelter assistance to include not only construction but also rehabilitation, repair 
and improvement of existing housing units an intended beneficiary may already have. Finally, 
the bill increases the level of rice subsidy provided under social welfare and cost of living 
assistance to reflect average household rice consumption. 
Sacrificing both life and limb in the name of one’s motherland can never be understated 
and to honor one’s heroism may be put into naught if it cannot be translated into reality.  
Hence, this bill is filed for Congress’ immediate consideration and approval. 
Respectfully submitted. 
BERNADETTE “DETTE” G. ESCUDERO 


Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
19th CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO.  ____ 
___________________________________________________________________________ 
Introduced by REP. BERNADETTE “DETTE” G. ESCUDERO 
___________________________________________________________________________ 
AN ACT 
INSTITUTIONALIZING A COMPREHENSIVE SOCIAL BENEFITS PROGRAM 
FOR UNIFORMED PERSONNEL AND OTHER QUALIFIED AUXILIARY SERVICE 
MEMBERS WHO ARE KILLED, WOUNDED, OR RENDERED PHYSICALLY 
DISABLED IN LEGITIMATE ACTIONS OR OPERATIONS, CREATING FOR THE 
PURPOSE A COMPREHENSIVE SOCIAL BENEFITS PROGRAM TRUST FUND, 
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
Section 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as the “Uniformed Personnel 
Comprehensive Social Benefits Program Act”. 
Sec. 2.  Declaration of Policy. – It is hereby declared a policy of the State to accord its 
military and police the rightful and reasonable benefit in the performance of their sworn duty 
in defending and securing the State, and maintaining peace, order and safety in the country. 
Towards this end, it is imperative upon the State to provide an institutionalized comprehensive 
social benefits program to provide for the necessities and basic needs of uniformed personnel 
and auxiliary service members, as well as their dependents and beneficiaries, especially after 
being killed, wounded or rendered physically disabled in legitimate actions or operations 
sanctioned by the government and the State. 
Sec. 3. Institutionalization of the Comprehensive Social Benefits Program. – The 
Comprehensive Social Benefits Program (CBSP) is hereby institutionalized as a government 
mechanism to provide timely, appropriate and rationalized assistance and benefits to elements 
of uniformed services and qualified auxiliary services who become casualties in legitimate 
operations of their respective organizations, and their qualified dependents and beneficiaries. 
The CBSP shall provide for different types of benefits and assistance, including, but not limited 
to: special financial assistance; shelter assistance; health and medical care assistance; 
educational assistance; social welfare and cost of living assistance; and employment assistance. 
Sec. 4. Coverage and Scope. – This Act shall cover all uniformed personnel of the 
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) including the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit 
(CAFGU) and CAFGU Active Auxiliary (CAA), Philippine National Police (PNP), Bureau of 
Fire Protection (BFP), Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), Bureau of 
Corrections (BUCOR), and Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) who are killed, wounded or 
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rendered physically disabled in legitimate actions or operations, as well as their qualified 
dependents and beneficiaries.  
Sec. 5. Components of the CBSP. – The benefits to be granted under the CBSP shall 
include the following: 
(a) Special Financial Assistance – Provision of a lump sum fund for the death, injury 
or total permanent physical disability suffered by qualified uniformed personnel and 
auxiliary service members in the performance of their respective functions or as a 
result of legitimate action or operations of their respective uniformed services. 
(b) Educational Assistance – Provision of educational assistance to dependents of 
uniformed personnel and auxiliary service member concerned under existing 
scholarship programs and study grants extended by the Department of National 
Defense (DND), National Police Commission (NAPOLCOM), Department of the 
Interior and Local Government (DILG), Commission on Higher Education 
(CHED), and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) 
which covers tuition and other school fees, board and lodging expenses, 
transportation expenses, book allowance, and other similar or analogous expenses; 
(c) Shelter Assistance – Provision of a housing unit located in uniformed personnel 
housing sites, or provision of financial assistance for the construction, repair, 
rehabilitation or improvement of new or existing housing unit on land owned by the 
beneficiaries concerned, in coordination with the National Housing Authority 
(NHA); 
(d) Health and Medical Care Assistance – Membership into the Universal Health Care 
Program as indirect contributor, and provision of medicines and medical assistance 
for hospitalization under the Medical Assistance to Indigent Patients Program and 
other relevant programs of the Department of Health (DOH); 
(e) Social Welfare and Cost of Living Assistance – Enrolment as members in the 
Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program of the Department of Social Welfare and 
Development (DSWD) or, in lieu thereof, provision of a monthly subsidy of forty 
(40) kilos of rice or its cash equivalent based on the prevailing market price; 
(f) Employment Assistance – Provision of such reasonable assistance for employment 
of qualified beneficiaries to be facilitated by the uniformed services concerned.  
 
Sec. 6. Conditions for Availment of Benefits under the CBSP. – The grant of assistance 
provided under this Act shall be in accordance with the following conditions: 
(a) The amounts and the applicability for each type of assistance shall be determined 
on the basis of the severity of the physical or bodily damage and injury sustained 
by an active officer or member of the AFP and the PNP in a legitimate action or 
operation; 
(b) The grant of assistance provided under this Act shall be uniform and equal in each 
type and application, and shall ensure that the most reasonable and rightful amount 
for each type assistance is given; 
(c) Uniformed personnel and auxiliary service members concerned, as well as their 
qualified beneficiaries, who received assistance provided under this Act may still 
avail of other forms of assistance provided by other government agencies, subject 
to the existing laws, rules, and regulations; 


(d) The Education Assistance provided in Section 4(b) of this Act shall be made 
priority in terms of provision to qualified beneficiaries and share in the allocation 
in the Trust Fund created under Section 6 of this Act; 
(e) The actual amount of assistance provided to uniformed personnel and auxiliary 
service members concerned and their qualified beneficiaries  under this Act may 
be adjusted or modified by the President of the Philippines: Provided, That any 
change or adjustment in the amounts for each type of assistance shall reflect 
changes in pertinent social and economic indicators such as, but not limited to, the 
inflation rate and consumer price index as determined by the Philippine Statistics 
Authority (PSA) and other agencies concerned.  
  
Sec. 7. Creation of the Comprehensive Social Benefits Program Trust Fund. – To 
ensure the immediate and adequate provision of assistance provided for in this Act, there is 
hereby constituted an irrevocable trust fund in the amount of Twenty Billion Pesos 
(Php20,000,000,000.00), to be known as the Comprehensive Social Benefits Program Trust 
Fund. The Fund shall be perpetually maintained and shall be used exclusively for the provisions 
of benefits identified under Section 4 of this Act: Provided, That assistance for uniformed 
personnel and qualified auxiliary service members who suffered death, injury or total 
permanent total disability prior to the effectivity of this Act shall be authorized to be sourced 
from the Fund: Provided, further, That such amount shall be disbursed to intended beneficiaries 
no later than two years following the effectivity of this Act: Provided, finally, That the releases 
from the Fund shall be approved by the Comprehensive Benefit Program Fund Board created 
under Section 7 of this Act and shall be released directly to the agencies concerned.  
Section 8. Administration of the Fund. – There is hereby created a Comprehensive 
Benefit Program Fund Board, or the Board, to oversee the utilization Fund. The Board shall be 
composed of sixteen (16) members as follows: 
a) President of the Philippines as Chairperson; 
b) Secretary of the DND;  
c) Secretary of the DILG;  
d) Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) 
e) Secretary of the DSWD; 
f) Secretary of DOH; 
g) Secretary of the Department of Finance (DOF); 
h) Chairperson of the CHED; 
i) Director-General of the TESDA; 
j) General Manager of the NHA; 
k) Chief of Staff of the AFP; 
l) Chief of the PNP; 
m) Chief of the BJMP; 
n) Chief of the BFP; 
o) Commandant of the PCG; and 
p) Director-General of the BUCOR. 
Provided, That the members of the Board shall be authorized to designate their 
respective alternatives whose acts shall be considered as acts of their principals.   
The Board shall formulate policies, implementing rules and regulations, guidelines and 
other related functions to oversee, manage and supervise the operations of the Fund. The Board 


may likewise in its discretion choose any or all the types of assistance that may be granted and 
adjust their corresponding amounts pursuant to Sections 4 and 5 of this Act.  
Section 9. Implementing Rules and Regulations. – Within thirty (30) days from the 
effectivity of this Act, the Board shall promulgate the necessary implementing rules and 
regulations for the effective implementation of this Act.  
Section 10.  Separability Clause. – If any provision or part of this Act is held invalid or 
unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected hereby shall remain valid and subsisting. 
Section 11. Repealing Clause. –All laws, decrees, orders, regulations, policies or parts 
thereof which are contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, 
amended or modified accordingly.  
Section 12. Effectivity. – This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication 
the Official Gazette or in two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved,