A ranking congressman is pursuing a new retroactive retirement plan for the country’s foreign service officers in an effort to upgrade their pensions when they reach old age or suffer some other disability.
House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan penned and filed House Bill No. 4077, or the proposed Act establishing a foreign service retirement program under the Government Service Insurance System .
“The Foreign Service Law of 1991, or Republic Act No. 7157, actually endorsed the creation of the very program that we are now pushing for,” he noted. The new program would cover all foreign service officers, including those who previously retired or became disabled, as long as they had served for at least 15 years in the Department of Foreign Affairs or in other government agencies.
Differential funding for the program would be sourced from the DFA’s available savings and consular income, as included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
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