Poll workers who are serving as Electoral Board (EB) members are set to receive higher honoraria in the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE), the Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced on Thursday, March 23.
Comelec Chairperson George Garcia said the teachers who will be part of the October 2023 polls are set to receive a minimum of P8,000 to as high as P10,000.
“We will make it P10,000, P9,000 and P8,000. We will match it to what teachers receive in automated elections,” he said in a press conference Thursday.
“We will make it effective in the Barangay and SK elections,” the poll body chief added.
Bu the payment for teachers is not exempted from the Value Added Tax (VAT) deductions, he said.
The new payment is higher than what the teachers received in the last BSKE, which was at P6,000, P5,000, and P4,000.
In the May 2022 polls, over 75,000 teachers served as Electoral Boards.
An EB is composed of a chairperson, two members, Department of Education Supervisor Official (DESO) and support staff.*PNA