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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

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

The DSWD says that a condition for the release of the second installment of SAP is the local government’s liquidation report on the first wave of the cash distribution.  In ordinary times, this audit rule should be followed strictly. But in the midst of the pandemic, it

Senators who wrote the provision in the Bayanihan to Heal As One Act granting P200 billion in cash aid to the poor said the second installment should still be given to beneficiaries even if their residence has been downgraded to a general quarantine area. “Klaro sa records ng