CATBALOGAN, Samar – The payment of salary grades of teachers until today is being made by the payroll service division (IBM) of the DepEd central office. But this system will soon become a thing of the past.

Plans had been a foot for a long time now to regionalize the payment of the salaries of elementary grades teachers and other personnel.

Here in eastern Visayas, this regionalization plan of the payment of grade school teachers will eventually become a reality.

It was learned from Antonio D. Zartiga, principal of the Calbiga central elementary school, this division, that DepEd Regional Director Sol F. Matugas has issued Regional Memorandum No. 28, s. 2005, dated January 19, 2005, addressed ton schools division superintendents, assistant superintendents, district supervisors, public elementary and secondary school principals, division accountants, cashier/disbursing officers, and all others concerned, on the subject – “Revised Guidelines in the Processing and Schedule of Release of Salary Checks from the Regional Payroll Services Unit (RPSU).

Zartiga said that the regionalization of the preparation and processing of payrolls and checks is in line with the desire of the DepEd to make the payment of salaries of teachers and other school personnel expeditious and on time.

Director Matugas, in her regional memorandum said.

“The Regional Office will be completing in due time the full regionalization or the preparation and processing of the payrolls and salary checks of elementary school teachers and personnel, from the payroll services Division in the Central Office.”

As a result of this regionalization plan, Director Matugas, included her memorandum a schedule of submission of reports and other activities related to the preparation, printing and release of the checks to the different division offices.

In this regard, Matugas said:

In the desire of the Regional Office to release expeditiously the salary checks of public elementary and secondary school teachers and other personnel to be early on time on the 30 th day of very month, the following are herby set forth:

Submission of Form 7 and other Documents – Cut-off date is every 4rth of the month;

Printing of payroll and payslips – To commence on or before the 8 th day of the month;

Release of checks from Regional Payroll Services Unit to division offices – to start at the 16 th day of the months; also distribution of the checks from division office to district offices and secondary schools.