Tag: Department of Budget Management

Php4.2T national budget, target ng gobyerno para sa 2019

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Sinimulan na ng Department of Budget Management (DBM) ang budget preparations para sa susunod na taon kahit kasisimula pa lang ng 2018. Ayon kay Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, aabot sa record high na 4.2 trillion pesos ang budget para sa 2019. Mas mataas ito ng 11.5 percent sa naaprubahang 3.76 trillion pesos para ngayong taon na nilagdaan ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte noon lang December 19, 2017. Inilabas na ng kagawaran […]

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Diokno: DBM proposal for base pay hike of military, police, other uniformed personnel endorsed to Congress

(Eagle News) — Budget Secretary Ben Diokno on Friday announced his office’s proposal for a base pay hike for the military, police and other uniformed personnel has been approved by the Office of the President. In a statement, Diokno said the OP approval was made on Sept. 25, with the draft now endorsed to Congress. “We need the approval of both houses of Congress to implement this because Congress has the power of the purse,” […]

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Malacañang irons out salary adjustment for government employees

Despite the failure of the Congress to pass the Salary Standardization Law (SSL) before the close of its session, Presidential Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma assured government employees that they may still have a salary adjustment as the Department of Budget Management (DBM) is already finalizing its recommendation to President Benigno Aquino regarding the first tranche of the salary adjustment. Coloma added that Php 58 billion was set aside for said salary adjustment in the 2016 […]

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Congress asks DBM to explain where sin taxes are going

The House of Representatives is asking the Department of Budget Management to explain where the sin taxes are going. As per Republic Act 10351 or Sin Tax Law, said tax should be used for the universal healthcare program as well as for the construction of hospitals and clinics in various places in the country but members of the lower house observed that many Filipinos remain outside the coverage of the universal health care program. (Eagle […]

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