PEI vs SRI Govt Personnel Incentives for 2019

Following President Rodrigo Duterte's Administrative Order No. 19, the Department of Budget and Management Circular states one of the conditions on the grant of the One-time Service Recognition Incentive (SRI):

• The personnel have not received ANY ADDITIONAL YEAR-END BENEFIT in FY 2019 over and above the benefit authorized under Republic Act (RA) No. 6686 dated December 14, 1988, as amended by RA No. 8441 dated December 22, 1997

The said law states that "all officials and employees of the National Government who have rendered at least four months of service from January 1 to October 31 of each year and who are employed in the government service as of October 31 of the same year shall each receive a Christmas bonus equivalent to one month basic salary and additional cash gift of Five thousand pesos (₱5,000.00)"

How about the Productivity Enhancement Incentive (PEI)?

President Benigno Aquino III's Executive Order 201 s. 2016 authorizes the grant of the Productivity Enhancement Incentive (PEI), to wit:

• Section 6. Productivity Enhancement Incentive. Beginning FY 2016, the Productivity Enhancement Incentive shall be given not earlier than December 15 of every year to all qualified government employees at Five Thousand Pesos (P5,000) each for the purpose of improving the government employees’ productivity.

To implement the four-year (2016-2019) compensation adjustment, the DBM National Budget Circular No. 575 of 2019 includes the PEI in the amount of P5,000 shall be granted to qualified government personnel not earlier than December 15.

In summary, the SRI is authorized by a new administrative order while the PEI is supported by an Executive Order which will "remain in force until they are canceled, revoked, adjudicated unlawful, or expire on its own terms."