IMPLEMENTING GUIDELINES OF THE PROVISION OF SUBSIDIES AND ALLOWANCES TO BASIC EDUCATION STUDENTS UNDER SECTION 4(n) of REPUBLIC ACT RA NO. 11494, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS BAYANIHAN TO RECOVER AS ONE ACT

 IMPLEMENTING GUIDELINES OF THE PROVISION OF SUBSIDIES AND

ALLOWANCES TO BASIC EDUCATION STUDENTS UNDER SECTION 4(n) of

REPUBLIC ACT RA NO. 11494, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS BAYANIHAN TO RECOVER

AS ONE ACT

I RATIONALE

Republic Act (RA) No. 11494, otherwise known as the Bayanihan to Recover as

One Act, or the Bayanihan 2 Act, was promulgated on 11 September 2O2O in

cognizance of the adverse impact of the covlD-i9 pandemic to the Philippine

""6.ro-y and society. T1'e Bayanihan 2 Act provides for COVID-19 response and.

recovery interventions, such as mechanisms to further reduce the impact of

covlD-i9 on the socio-economic well-being of Filipinos through the provision of

assistance, subsidies, allowances, and other forms of socio-economic retef'

Section 4(n) of the Bayanihan 2 Act mandates the provision of subsidies and

allowances to qualified students in private and public elementary and secondary

education whose families are now facing financial difficulties brought about by

work stoppage and closure of establishments due to the Community Quarantine

(CQ), and neither part of the Listahanan of the Department of Social Welfare and

Development (DSWD), nor covered under the Education Service Contracting

(ESC) Program, or the Senior High School Voucher Program (SHS VP) as provided

in RA Nos. 8545 and 10533, respectively.

To implement RA No. 11494, the Office of the Executive Secretary issued a

memorandum dated October 23, 2O2O containing the Implementing Guidelines

of RA No. 11494. The Implementing Guidelines was uploaded in the Official

Gazette on November 03, 2O2O. Under Item M of said memorandum of the Office

of the Executive Secretary, the Secretary of the Department of Education (DepEd),

the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the Technical Education and

Skills Development Authority (TESDA), within their respective mandates, shall

formulate guidelines and implement the relevant sections of RA No. 11494. By

the same token, Section 8.4.3 of the Guidelines provides that DepEd shall issue

separate eligibility rules consistent with Section 7 of the same.

The Implementing Guidelines (IG) on the provision of education subsidies and

allowances for students under the Bayanihan 2 Act for basic education is hereby

issued to ensure effective and streamlined implementation of said Act.

II. Scope and Application

The IG shall have a national application and shall detail the procedures and

processes related to the Bayanihan 2 Act for the provision of allowances and for

the purpose of applying the subsidies for unpaid tuition in School Year (SY) 20 19-

2O2O or for pa5rment of tuition fee for SY 2O2O-2O27 of qualified students in

private and public basic education schools whose families are now facing

financial difficulties brought about by work stoppage and closure of

establishments due to the CQ, and who are not part of or covered by the

Listahanan of the DSWD, ESC, or the SHS VP. This includes, among others, the

policy statement upon which this IG is based, the roles and responsibilities of

bepea and other key stakeholders, and program implementation arrangements

from application for subsidies and allowances up to paJrment of the same'

III. DEFIITITION OF TERMS

1 Bayanihan 2 Act refers to RA No. 11494, otherwise known as the

Bayanihan to Recover as One Act.

2. 8,8lE refers to Bayanihan 2 for Basic Education'

3.BBEParticlpatingSchoolsrefertoBayanihan2forBasicEducation

Participating Schools which are private basic education schools that have

students who are recipients of the subsidies under Bayanihan 2, subject

to this IG.

For purposes of this IG, a private basic education school should satisfy the

requirements provided under DepEd Order No' 88, s' 2O1O titled,

"Revised Manual for the Operation of Private Schools" for it to be

authorized, permitted and/or recogrrized to operate as such'

4. BBES refers to the Bayanihan 2 for Basic Education System which is an

online processing system maintained by Private Education Assistance

Commiittee (pEAC) to facilitate the distribution of the subsidies to qualified

students in BBE Participating Schools and allowances to qualified private

and public basic education students.

5. Student refers to a learner who is enrolled in a private or public

elementar5r and secondar5r school in the current Sy 2O2O-2O21'

For purposes of this IG, a student shall also include a learner in a private

ot p.rtti" elementary and secondary school who was enrolled in SY 2019-

2O,0, but did not complete the course and/or did not enroll in SY 202O-

2021.\

6. Subsidy refers to the amount of financial assistance that a private basic

education student may receive under the BBE Program to pay for unpaid

tuition for Sy 2O|9-2O2O or current tuition fee for SY 2O2O-202 l ' It may

also refer to the amount of financial assistance that a public basic

education student who is a transferee from a private basic education

school with unpaid tuition obligation for SY 2O19-2O2O nay receive under

the BBE Program.

7. Allowance refers to the amount of financial assistance that a private or

public basic education student may receive from the BBE Program to cover

various expenses incurred in the course of the education covering both

living and educational exPenses.

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