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PRESS RELEASE Finance Secretary Ralph G. Recto has expressed optimism that the inflation rate will remain within the government’s target band in 2024 after its decline in June, with the persistent implementation of whole-of-government interventions to ensure that the purchasing

Press Release  5 August 2023 The budget for the DepEd’s “School-Based Feeding Program” will double from the current year’s P5.68 billion to P11.71 billion under next year’s P5.76 trillion national budget. And if the proposed P4.1 billion for the DSWD’s “Supplementary Feeding

 Press Release Office of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 6 February 2023 Congress has “upsized” the budget of two mega child feeding programs of the government, from P7.48 billion last year to P10.89 billion, a 45.5% percent bump, House Deputy Speaker Ralph

Press Release Office of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 1 February 2023 Gatchalian in DSWD is a Win – Recto Newly appointed DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian comes well prepared for one of the “toughest and thankless” jobs in government, Deputy Speaker Ralph

Press Release Office of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 23 August 2022 DSWD, a big ATM – Ayuda, Tulong Machine – has smallest regular staff of 2,993 The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s flawed aid distribution to indigent students was a “teachable

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said the “supply squeeze and price hikes” of food should prompt the immediate passage of the Bayanihan III Law. “If hunger is a great motivator, then it should push the government to package a third round of aid centered on helping

With 7 weeks left in the year, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto is pressing DSWD “to act like a Santa Claus on overdrive” and quickly disburse some P80 billion remaining in its 2020 budget, prioritizing victims of the three typhoons which have devastated a wide swath of

Committee on Finance [Subcommittee ”I”]Agenda: Proposed 2021 Budget of the Department of Social Welfare and Development and its attached agenciesSeptember 22, 2020 Ralph Recto: You had a presentation earlier on SAP 2 implemented by DSWD. We’ve received reports that not all

Committee on Finance (Subcommittee ”I”)Proposed 2021 Budget of the Department of Social Welfare and Development and its attached agencies Upon questioning by Senator Ralph Recto, the DSWD clarified that the 18 million family-beneficiaries for the 2nd tranche of social

President Duterte should order government agencies to add the most important column in their monthly publication of funds spent, and that is for “goods and services delivered to the people.”  “Spent” is a broad term, and is often used to disguise delays in the delivery of