Section 15. Other Benefits. —
Aside from the benefits received as required under existing laws and executive orders, the public social workers shall receive the following:
Hazard Allowance — Public social workers and public social welfare and development workers assigned in remote and depressed areas, strife-torn or embattled areas, distressed or isolated stations, mental hospitals, leprosaria, areas declared under a state of calamity or emergency which expose them to great danger, volcanic activity/eruption, occupational risks or threats to life shall be compensated with hazard allowance equivalent to at least twenty per centum (20%) of the monthly basic salary.
Subsistence/Transportation Allowance — Public social workers who are required to render service in communities, institutions, hospitals and other social work establishments in order to make their services available at all times, shall be entitled to daily full subsistence allowance for three meals which shall be computed according to prevailing circumstances. Those assigned out of their regular work stations shall be entitled to per diem in place of this allowance. Actual transportation allowance shall also be provided to public social workers on field work.
Housing and Living Quarters Allowance — All public social workers who are transferred to another assignment due to the exigency of the service shall be entitled to free housing within the agency concerned: Provided, That, of living quarters are not available within the agency and the personnel has his/her residence outside of fifty (50) kilometers radius from such government facility, he/she shall receive a housing allowance, and: Provided, further, That the rate of such housing allowance shall be periodically adjusted for inflation.
Longevity Pay — A monthly longevity pay equivalent to five per centum (5%) of his/her latest monthly basic pay shall be paid to a public social worker for every five years of continuous, efficient and meritorious service rendered as certified by the chief of office concerned, commencing with the service after approval of this Act.
Clothing Allowance — All public social workers shall be entitled to a minimum of One thousand five hundred pesos (P1,500.00) clothing allowance annually, which amount shall be adjusted as needed.