The Department of Budget and Management disbursed P11.6 billion in bonuses to 920,073 public school teachers two years after it withheld releasing the 2021 performance-based bonus.

Records from the DBM showed that as of 1 September 2023, all of its 16 regional offices have released the corresponding special allotment release orders and notice of cash allocations to the Department of Education for fiscal year 2021.

The SAROs and NCAs were issued after the DBM evaluated and validated the required updated documents, which DepEd submitted from April to August 2023. In a statement, DBM explained that the basis for granting the FY 2021 PBB is DepEd's accomplishments for FY 2021.

The final evaluation assessment for the DepEd was released through Administrative Order 25.

"The evaluation of documents for the FY 2021 PBB to the school-based personnel of the DepEd was facilitated and processed by the DBM immediately after," DBM said in a statement.