The Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) inaugurated a new building for its veterans records and management division (VRMD) on its 44th founding anniversary Friday.
The building in the PVAO compound in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City will house and integrate all records of veterans and their dependents, PVAO Administrator Ernesto Carolina said.
These records are the 201 files or the pensioners/veterans records of both deceased and active pensioners, Carolina said, including application forms, documentary requirements and military service records, proofs of identity, evaluation/processing forms for benefits applied for by the pensioners, and attachments on approved and disapproved applications.
These will be consolidated into one veteran file that will be transferred from the Bonifacio Hall and the former division’s facility to the new building.
Files gathered from the year 2001 to the present will also be stored there. As a pension management institution, the PVAO’s lifeblood are the records, thus the need for the facility.
Carolina said it was named the VRMD to honor the selfless and heroic sacrifices made by Filipino veterans.
“The digitization of records will facilitate the availability of veterans’ information and documents to using entities through their respective computer terminals, thus drastically reducing the processing time for benefit claims and validation of pensioners under the PVAO Validation Program,” Deputy Administrator Raul Caballes said.