Section 68September 19, 1991, Sec./Art. 68

Family allowance. – A commutable family allowance shall be granted to any officer or employee assigned abroad who is a citizen of the Philippines and who is living with his family at the post of assignment, to a dependent spouse and to each unmarried legal minor dependent child but not exceeding three (3) in number. If both husband and wife are in the Service and assigned in the same post, only one (1) of them may claim the allowance.

No family allowance for spouse shall be payable if the claimant is a widow/widower or separated or when his/her spouse is gainfully employed. However, if the claimant has minor unmarried dependent children to support, he/she shall be entitled to the family allowance of each child but not exceeding three (3) in number.

Unmarried children living with the officer or employee who are mentally and physically retarded regardless of age and who are incapable of supporting themselves shall, for family allowance purposes, be considered as minor children.

Subject to the prior approval of the Department Head, full family allowances may be paid to any claimant.

(a) Who is compelled by reason of dangerous, notably unhealthy, or excessively adverse living conditions, or by other unavoidable circumstances, like lack of educational facilities for his children at his post of assignment, which renders its inadvisable for any or all the members of his family to live with him at his post; or

(b) Who, for the convenience of the Government, must live alone without any or all the members of his family at his post of assignment.

All other meritorious cases by considered by the Department Head as the circumstances and the exigencies of the Service may warrant.