1. In the signed Implementing Guidelines of the Department of Education by Sec. Leonor M. Briones, it was explained that Republic Act (RA) No. 11494, otherwise known as the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act, or the Bayanihan 2 Act, was promulgated on 11 September 2020 in cognizance of the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic to the Philippine economy and society. The Bayanihan 2 Act provides for COVID-19 response and recovery interventions, such as mechanisms to further reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the socio-economic well-being of Filipinos through the provision of assistance, subsidies, allowances, and other forms of socio-economic relief.

0923 – Division Memorandum No. 078, s. 2021