Practice question
A covered applicant knowingly submits a fabricated eligibility certificate to qualify for a public position and later serves competently. The falsity and knowing submission are established in the proper disciplinary proceeding. Under the 2025 RACCS dishonesty rules, which is correct?
- Later competence necessarily erases the original dishonest act.
- No dishonesty can exist without a personal cash payment.
- All false credentials are legally irrelevant after appointment.
- A respondent may cure every false credential by refusing to discuss it.
- Misrepresentation of qualifications or submission of spurious credentials is an identified serious-dishonesty circumstance; later competent work alone does not erase it.
Legal references
- 2025 RACCS, Section 64(B)(1)(f), serious dishonesty: https://csc.gov.ph/phocadownload/userupload/paio/2025_ORAOHRA_AND_RACCS/2025_RACCS_19_September.pdf
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