Malacañang assured government employees that salary adjustments are on the way, with the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) streamlining its processes to ensure the timely release of salary adjustments for government workers and public-school teachers.

In a Palace briefing, Presidential Communications Office Undersecretary Claire Castro said the DBM is working on reforms to prevent government employees from waiting too long for salary deficiency requests to be processed.

The DBM said government employees and public-school teachers will no longer need to submit a separate funding request to process salary adjustments.

Under the planned reform, the burden of initiating a separate funding request will be removed, allowing salary adjustments to be processed more efficiently.

Immediate disbursement

Once an agency updates its plantilla master list and the DBM detects a salary funding deficiency, the budget department can act on it and release the required funding, ensuring teachers and other government employees receive their salaries promptly.

Castro said the DBM will also conduct live testing of the new system across various agencies during the 4th quarter of 2026.

She also said that for those waiting for salary adjustments, the government has already expedited the process so government employees and public school teachers can receive their adjusted salaries.

The DBM, in a separate statement, said government employees, including thousands of teachers who are promoted or reclassified, may soon no longer have to wait for their agencies to formally request additional funding before receiving the corresponding salary adjustments.

DBM Acting Secretary Kim Robert de Leon said their agency is moving to replace the existing request-based process for Personnel Services deficiencies with a more proactive system that will allow the DBM to determine funding gaps from updated agency plantilla records and release the necessary funds without waiting for a separate request.