Tag: 2016 budget

COMELEC to use 2016 budget for 2017 elections

MANILA, Sept. 20 — The Commission on Elections will use the budget originally allocated for the 2016 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections for 2017. House Bill 3504, which postpones the elections to October 2017, allows the Commission to continue using the appropriations given by the government for the elections. Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista previously said that the funds intended for the 2016 elections are “largely intact” when he presented the proposed budget for 2017 amounting to […]

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‘Put back P8-billion cut in 2016 DSWD budget’—Soliman

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman said that the agency “cannot accept” the P8 billion reduction in its 2016 budget and called for the Senators to put back the said amount as it will serve as cash grants for Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiaries. “This was made despite the fact that the Senate has approved our budget proposal in the budget plenary session in November, without deductions,” Soliman said in a […]

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P62.7-B in 2016 budget to expand CCT coverage

MANILA, Oct. 14 — The National Government’s flagship poverty alleviation program, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), will have a budget allocation of P62.7 billion in the proposed 2016 National Budget to broaden its coverage and include high school students to help more indigent families. Budget Secretary Florencio ‘Butch’ Abad said the 4Ps must not only be sustained, but also widened, given that it is one of the most important and effective programs of the National Government that put resources […]

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Several LP members plan to switch to Senator Poe’s camp

(Eagle News) — Several members of the Liberal Party (LP) expressed their plans to switch to the camp of Senator Grace Poe but also added that they plan to make the appropriate actions after the passage of the 2016 budget, saying that they fear that they may not get enough funding for their projects if they made an early move. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)

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