Comelec completes honoraria payout for teachers in 2025 polls

Comelec urges law to institutionalize increase in teachers' honoraria

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has called for legislation institutionalizing increases in the honoraria for teachers serving as election staff and making the benefit tax-free.

Comelec completes honoraria payout for teachers in 2025 polls

Teachers prepare the election paraphernalia. File photo MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has already finished distributing the honoraria of teachers who served as electoral board members in the 2025 elections, according to Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia. “As of the other day, we have paid 100% of the honoraria for our electoral board members. We have wholeheartedly complied with our law to pay our electoral board…