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COST OF LIVING ALLOWANCE: Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, chair of the Senate Committee on Civil Service, Government Reorganization and Professional Regulation, discusses with officials from the Departments of Budget and Management, Finance, National Defense, and Interior and Local Government a proposed measure providing for a Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) amounting to P5,000 to all government employees during a public hearing on Wednesday, September 2. “It is high time that they should be granted additional assistance to help alleviate the effects of the rising cost of living due to inflation in order to sustain decent living,” Trillanes said. (PRIB Photo by Romeo Bugante / 02 September 2015)