Pre-retirees' Plan Prior to Retirement of the Local Government Employees in the Province of Palawan

The study explored the pre-retirees’ plan prior to leaving government service of 143 local government employees in the Province of Palawan. Respondents were selected purposely from various local government units in the Province of Palawan. Result of the survey showed that close to two thirds of the respondents have well planned spiritual activities, financial, health, social and family aspects. On the other hand psychological planning received the lowest rating, with less than half of the respondents have it planned well. In relation to financial planning, the pre-retirees are concerned more on which retirement packaged to consider from the GSIS and followed with saving the retirement money for emergency and medical allocation. The desire to take care of their health is very high; however current lifestyle shows they are not into it. The least among the list of planned activities is the pre-retirees participation in political and cultural activities. In general, the pre-retiree’s planning activities are based only on limited knowledge about retired life, mostly they learned it from colleagues who have already retired and from what they read and hear. Interviews revealed that there is no concrete pre-retirement activities conducted by their units, if there is, it’s very much limited only on a short-period seminar about retirement while the rest is through the initiatives of the pre-retirees.  There is a need to strengthen pre-retirement activities for the LGU workers. Financial literacy and health is one very important area of intervention that needs to be addressed.