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AUG
19
2024

Recto: Use of PhilHealth’s sleeping funds will do no harm to its members nor on its plans to expand benefit packages this year 

PRESS RELEASE Finance Secretary Ralph G. Recto assured the public that the use of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth)’s sleeping funds for the government’s priority programs and projects will do no harm to its members nor on its plans to expand its benefit
JUL
16
2024

Recto: DOF to stretch every peso collected to prioritize education along with social protection, food security, and infra to produce globally competitive Bagong Pilipino

PRESS RELEASE Finance Secretary Ralph G. Recto underscored that the Department of Finance (DOF) is maximizing every peso collected in its revenue efforts to prioritize funding for education along with social protection, food security, and infrastructure, among others, to produce
DEC
13
2021

HB 10373: Extending the Availability of 2021 GAA to December 31, 2022

EXPLANATION OF VOTE HB 10373: Extending the Availability of 2021 GAA to December 31, 2022 Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto 13 December 2021 Mr. President:  The essence of this bill is to extend the clock on the current national budget. Appropriations bear expiry
AUG
31
2021

DOH seeks P819 M for PPEs: ‘Don’t let PS, PITC buy it; disclose specs; buy Filipino’

The Department of Health (DOH) is planning to buy 758,700 sets of personal protective equipment (PPE) next year at an average cost of P1,079 each, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. The P819 million needed for the purchase has been included in the 2022 national
AUG
25
2021

Booster shots? Palace seeks standby P45B in ’22 budget

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto welcomed the administration’s request for standby authority to buy as much as P45.4 billion worth of vaccine booster shots, should the same be needed next year. Recto said the amount is part of the P151.6 billion in unprogrammed funds in
FEB
26
2021

RA 11525: COVID-19 Vaccination Program

Republic of the PhilippinesCongress of the PhilippinesMetro ManilaEighteenth CongressSecond Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand twenty. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11525] AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019
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