Filing of application for Aug 20 Civil Service exams suspended

BAGUIO CITY -- The Civil Service Commission announced suspension of the filing of applications for the August 9, 2020 Career Service Examination-Pen and Paper Test (CSE-PPT) until further notice.

The suspension of the filing of applications is in view of the imposition of the extended enhanced community quarantine in several high risk areas in the country including the province of Benguet and the City of Baguio.

“The suspension of application filing is in view of the continued management of the Coronavirus Disease situation in which the National Capital Region, Region III, Region IV-A, and other select provinces have been placed under extended “Enhanced Community Quarantine” until May 15, 2020, and the rest of the country under “General Community Quarantine,” the CSC said in a statement.

The CSC originally set May 11 to June 10, 2020 as the filing period for the CSE-PPT for both Professional and Subprofessional levels.

Last March, the CSC decided to suspend the conduct of the March 15, 2020 examinations nationwide until further notice in compliance to President Rodrigo Roa Duterte's Proclamation No. 922 declaring a State of Public Health Emergency throughout the Philippines and calling for the implementation of urgent, critical measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. 

Around 293,845 individuals were scheduled to take both the Professional and Subprofessional levels in 66 testing centers nationwide. More than 9,000 were from the Cordillera region who were supposed to take the exams in testing centers in Baguio City, Benguet, Abra, Mountain Province and Kalinga. 

Just recently, the CSC also suspended the filing of applications for the June 21, 2020 Fire Officer Examination, Penology Officer Examination, and Basic Competency on Local Treasury Examination until further notice.

Interested applicants are advised to keep themselves posted on subsequent exam announcements / advisories to be published on the CSC website (www.csc.gov.ph) or on the CSC Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/civilservicegovph) or the official Facebook pages of CSC Regional Offices.

Meanwhile, public officials and employees are given additional 60 days or until June 30, 2020 to file their Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Networth (SALN) for the year 2019. The deadline of filing of SALN has been extended from its original deadline of April 30 "in view of the declaration of a state of public health emergency in the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic." 

Departments, agencies, and offices are given until August 31, 2020 to submit the SALN Forms to the appropriate repository agencies.

Government workers are reminded to use the correct SALN form and Additional Sheets Form (Revised as of January 2015). Forms could be downloaded at the CSC website. (JDP/RMC- PIA-CAR)