it is written in the circular that 13th month is not categorized under bonus...you need to understand that both mid year AVC and end year AVC budget are from PSD. when MTI announce that the economy is bad, PSD will have to re-calculate to see if the whole of civil service deserve to get mid year and end year AVC; clearly they evaluated that we shouldn't get for mid year. Whereas for 13th month, the budget is not under PSD so its up to individual ministry.

for the primary school teacher, i doubt he is under super scale grade. only principal in schools are under the super scale grade and they definitely wont be surfing the forum like he does.