Country: Philippines
Title: Request for Correction of Birth Dates
Author: Patricia A. ; lSto. Tomas, CSC Chairman.
Institution: DECS
Citations: DECS ORDER No. 59, s. 1990, MEC Order No. 19, s.
1990.
Descriptors: Personnel data.
Full text: (Inclosure No. 2 to DECS Order No. 59, s. 1990)
1. It is presumed that educators who have reached their
sixties are responsible people, and that the age which they have
recorded as theirs, on countless official documents, and which is
the basis of their social relationships, including their
relationships with spouses, children, relatives, acquaintances,
colleges and pepers, et cetera, is their correct age.
2. When education officials, therefore, request a change in
birth date, and especially when such officials do so on the eve of
mandatory retirement from the service, or especially when the
applicants tend to come from a single category or rank, there is
reasonable ground for suspicion of non-service-related
considerations. In any event, the long-standing presumption of the
correctness of the birth date presented or used by the official
himself or herself for many years must be sustained. It can be
overturned only by persuasive and positive evidence of error. the
presumption will not be overcome by allegations of loss of original
documents, which in itself provers absolutely nothing.
3. This Office holds as contrary to the interests of the
service, in view of the many qualified younger and promotable
officials, the de facto extension in the service of mandatorily
retirable personnel, via questionable changes in the birth date
that make the latter younger than is reflected in official service
records.
4. Henceforth, no requests for change in birth date shall be
forwarded to this Office, and if forwarded shall not be acted upon,
on the familiar and unconvncing allegation or contention,
erroneously presented as evidence, that original documents had been
lost, destroyed, missing, et cetera.
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