Circular Letter No. 2026-14

3.0 Effective December 1 to December 31 of the current year, FY 2026, the following procedures in the settlement of payables shall be observed in order to facilitate the encashment of MDS checks and crediting of payments through ADA to creditors/payees' bank accounts. 3.1 The 24-hour waiting period for the encashment of MDS checks as well as the crediting of creditors/payees' bank accounts specified in the LDDAP- ADA is hereby lifted/suspended for the whole month of December 2026. Thus, agencies/OUs are instructed to immediately transmit without delay the properly accomplished ACICs/SLIIEs to their respective AGSBs. 3.2 Upon receipt of the covering ACIC/SLIIE by the AGSB concerned: 3.2.1 Agencies/OUs shall immediately release the MDS Checks to creditors/payees. 3.2.2 AGSBs shall immediately effect payment to the creditors/payees and provide the agencies/OUs concerned with a copy of the duly validated/posted ADA, to inform the agencies/OUs of the following: 3.2.2.1 Direct payments effected in favor of creditors/payees, i.e., machine validation shown in the lower portion of the said document; and 3.2.2.2 Non-payment to creditors/payees indicated under "remarks" column, due to any inconsistency of information (i.e., bank branch, account name/number) between bank records and LDDAP-ADA. 4.0 Agencies/OUs are encouraged to settle their due and demandable obligations as soon as possible, by issuing MDS checks/paying through ADA not later than December 22, 2026. However, they may still issue MDS checks/pay through ADA up to the last working day of the year (i.e., Tuesday, December 29, 2026). 5.0 This Circular shall take effect starting December 1 of the current year until the last working day of the same year. KIM ROBERT C. DE LEON Acting Secretary