600K DepEd personnel to render services for May 9 polls — official

FILE PHOTO Teachers serving as poll chairmen start the manual counting at the Payatas Elementary School B during the 2018 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections. INQUIRER PHOTO/ ALEXIS CORPUZ

MANILA, Philippines — Around 600,000 Department of Education (DepEd) personnel will render services during the 2022 elections, a department official said during a Senate hearing.

On Thursday, the Senate ways and means committee tackled bills seeking to exempt from income tax the honoraria and allowances given to those rendering services during the election period, including teachers.

DepEd Director Marcelo Bragado Jr. of the procurement management service said the number of DepEd personnel to be involved in the 2022 polls increased from the previously held election in 2019.

“We are looking at a figure of more or less 600,000 DepEd personnel who will work with the Comelec (Commission on Elections) in this election,” Bragado said.

“This 2022 elections, because of the increase in the number of registered voters, the Comelec increased the number of clustered precincts. So we have 106,000 clustered precincts,” he explained.

According to him, a total of 319,317 teachers will serve as members of electoral boards while the rest are non-teaching DepEd personnel that will serve as supervising officials, support and technical support staff as well as boards of canvassers.

In 2019, there were a total of 531,000 DepEd personnel who rendered their services in the election, according to Bragado.

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