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QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The House of Representatives plans to transfer the supposed budget for the Commission on Human Rights, the National Commission for Indigenous People and the Energy Regulatory Commission to the budget for free tertiary education. “That would be the treatment kasi where else can we put it except doon. Kasi naghahanap kami ng pondo para sa implementation ng Free Higher Education Law,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Karlo Nograles said on […]
(Eagle News) — Let’s be honest. This was the message of Senator Ping Lacson to lawmakers amid assurances there was no pork in the 2018 national budget. “That’s what the Department of Budget and Management and the House appropriations committee always say before, during and after our budget deliberations..(but) how do you explain (certain things)?” he asked. He said there were, for instance, “big lump sums” in several agencies such as the Department of Public […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Ipinabubusisi ng Department of Budget and Management (DBM) sa Commission on Audit (COA) ang pondong nalikom mula sa Express Lane Fee na sinisingil sa mga immigration counter. Nais ni Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno na malaman kung magkano ang nasabing pondo sa mga nakalipas na taon at kung paano ito nagastos. Ayon sa Kalihim, kung lumabas na iligal ang pinaggamitan ng pondo ay posibleng mag-isyu ng notice of disallowance ang COA. […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo ”Ping” Lacson is asking the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to explain the lump sum worth Php 409 billion in the proposed 2017 national budget. Lacson said that because the lump sum was not detailed, there is a high probability of abuse on the lump sum.
MANILA, July 18 – Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno in his first sit-down press conference today told the media the department’s preparations for the 2017 budget under President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s administration. Secretary Diokno, a two-time budget secretary, said that the budgets for 2017 until 2022 will support the president’s promise to improve the country’s infrastructure, invest in human resources, modernize agriculture and rural development, and develop lagging regions. For Fiscal […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The next President of the Philippines will receive a salary increase worth Php 41, 000 based on the salary adjustment schedule released by the Department of Budget and Management. Said salary schedule was released as part of the implementation of Executive Order 20, wherein President Benigno S. Aquino III provided for the salary increase of government employees this year. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho […]
MANILA, Apr. 14 — The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) announced the release of the 40-percent share of Local Government Units (LGUs) from mining taxes in the amount of P233.8 million. The amount pertains to the LGU share from excise taxes collected from the mining industry between December 2011 and the fourth quarter of 2014. “We have issued the allotment and corresponding cash allocation for the release of the lawful share of LGUs in […]
MANILA, April 6 – The Department of Budget and Management said that in the interest of truth and accuracy, it is clarifying false claims on NHA Yolanda Housing and El Niño assistance funds. The DBM said it would like to set the record straight regarding the following statements of Vice President and United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) standard-bearer Jejomar C. Binay: 1. That the government was slow to release funds to the National Housing Authority (NHA) […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Hawak pa rin umano ng Department of Budget and Management (DBM) ang pondong para sa mga magsasakang apektado ng El Niño. Ibinunyag ni Department of Agriculture undersecretary Emerson Palad na ang hinihiling nilang pondo ang gagamitin sana ng mga magsasaka upang malabanan ang epekto ng matinding tagtuyot. Ngunit dahil, aniya, bigo ang DBM na ilabas ang nasabing pondo, sa regular fund muna ng agriculture department humugot ang ahensya para sa […]
MANILA, Philippines – President Benigno Aquino is set to sign the Executive Order that will implement the first part of the salary increase of government employees when he comes back from the United States. The Department of Budget and Management recommended the EO when Congress failed to pass SSL-4 before its session was suspended in order to give way to election campaign. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, […]
MANILA, Feb. 5 — The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is preparing its recommendations to President Benigno S. Aquino III on the possible implementation of the first tranche of salary adjustments for government workers, as provided for in the proposed Salary Standardization Law 4 bill, Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma Jr. said Thursday. “A total of P57.9 billion appropriation is included in the General Appropriations Act of 2016 and this will fully cover the first […]
According to Budget Secretary Butch Abad, 90% of the 2016 National Budget was already released to different government agencies. Abad added that the improvement on the budget release was due to the new treatment of the 2016 General Appropriation Act as a release document as well as the implementation of the pre-procurement activities. Because of this, government projects will be implemented before the election ban on March 25, 2016. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay […]
