Sources of Income of a Senator

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These are the sources of income of a senator:

1. Salary as senator – P 90,000 based on the Salary Standardization Law. The gross amount is P 90,000 a month but after deductions, the take-home pay is about P60,000 a month.

2. Honorarium as Senate officer – the Senate officers are the Senate President, Senate Protempore, Majority Leader, and Minority Leader.

3. Office of the Senator, including :

Monthly funds for Personal Services
Monthly funds for MOOE (Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses)
Travel allowance (international)
Capital Outlay
Additional MOOE
Permanent Committees
Oversight Committees
Commission on Appointments
Senate Electoral Tribunal.

According to the 2011 COA Report, a regular senator, meaning one who is not a Senate officer, received some P43 million per annum. This income basically came from the funds for the Office of the Senator, plus the funds for permanent committees to which the senator belonged. But the Senate officials received additional income as follows:

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile – P 71.7 million, or 166.30% more

Senate Protempore Jinggoy Estrada – P 9.3 million, or 21.69% more

Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III – P 9.3 million, or 21.64% more

Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano – P 10.2 million, or 23.67% more

Each regular senator is given funds in the approximate amount of P63.3 million per annum, but the senators collectively control and are accountable only for 47.49% of the total Senate budget.

Here is the deep, dark secret: the Senate President controls the remaining 52.51% of the Senate budget, or the total amount of P 1.7 billion for 2013. Thus, when Enrile was Senate President, he controlled over 50% of the Senate budget. But he proved that with great power comes great conceit, and perhaps megalomania.

The Amounts Paid to, and Expenses Incurred for, Each Senator

These figures covering the period January to December 2011 from the COA. Here are the amounts from Senate funds paid to every senator in the descending order of the amounts:

1. Juan Ponce Enrile, P 118 million

2. Jinggoy Estrada, P 62 million

3. Vicente Sotto III, P 56 million

4. Alan Peter Cayetano, P 55 million

5. Antonio Trillanes IV, P 54.9 million

6. Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., P 49 million

7. Ramon Revilla, Jr., P 49 million

8. Francis Escudero, P 48.7 million

9. Gregorio Honasan III, P 47 million

10. Francis Pangilinan, P 46 million

11. Loren Legarda, P 44 million

12. Aquilino Pimentel, P 43.9 million

13. Manuel Lapid, P 43.5 million

14. Ralph Recto, P 42 million

15. Pia Cayetano, P 42 million

16. Edgardo Angara, P 41.7 million

17. Teofisto Guingona, Jr., P 41.5 million

18. Miriam Defensor Santiago, P 41 million

19. Manny Villar, P 40 million

20. Sergio Osmena III, P 37.6 million

21. Panfilo Lacson, P 37 million

22.Franklin Drilon, P 34.9 million

23. Joker Arroyo, P 31.8 million

To summarize, the senator who received and spent the most Senate funds was Senator Enrile, with P 118 million for the year 2011 alone. The senator who spent the smallest amount for that year was Senator Arroyo at P 31.8 million. The rest of the senators received more or less some 40 million for the year, including myself with P 41 million.

Sources of Income in Actual Figures

The funds for monthly expenses in the Office of the Senator consist of the following:

Capital outlay – P 16 million
Travel allowance – P 59 million

Savings – If the Office of the Senator is able to set aside savings, they are realigned as additional MOOE.

Additional MOOE – The additional MOOE for each office of the senator is distributed upon discretion of the Senate President. Traditionally, this amount comes from the budget of the unoccupied office of the 24th senator.

The permanent committees of the Senate deal with their savings and with liquidation using the same procedure as the Office of the Senator. With oversight committees, usually the annual budget is from P 5 million to P 38 million. Most of the oversight committees have a budget of some P 10 million to P 20 million. There are also honoraria for the chair and members of oversight committees which are listed as extraordinary and miscellaneous expenses, also known as EME.

If a senator is a member of the Commission on Appointments, he is given P 50,000 per month as additional MOOE.

Source: MIRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO NEWSBLOG

So, if the are already earning millions, why the need to steal PDAF?

These greedy giant pigs are just so shameless and heartless!

Ang kakapal ng mukha. Mga walang puso.

Natawagan Honorobe Senators ah puro naman galing sa pandarambong ang pinapakain nila sa pamilya nila.

WE ARE WATCHING YOU!!! EXPECT US!!!