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MANILA, Philippines — Senators are poised to question the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth)’s need for more funds in the 2025 national budget despite its surplus funds, when the Senate tackles the Department of Health (DOH) budget for next year.
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is urging government agencies to further ramp up their spending of the 2024 budget to improve the delivery of public goods and services.
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has called on the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) to thoroughly assess the funding mechanisms for housing projects due to concerns about using a sovereign guarantee for this initiative.
Secretary Conrado M. Estrella III presented the Department of Agrarian Reform's (DAR) Fiscal Year 2025 budget to the House Committee on Appropriations, presided successively by Senior Committee Vice Chairperson Rep. Stella Quimbo and Vice Chairman Teodorico Haresco, Jr.
Senator Win Gatchalian urged the country's economic managers to focus on addressing inflation for the bottom 30% of income households or the poorest of the poor.
After PBBM approves Angara's education cluster
MANILA, Philippines — Aside from an education cluster, former Senate president Juan Miguel Zubiri is pushing for the creation of a Cabinet cluster to look into addressing the multi-faceted problems of the tourism industry, especially the country’s “crown jewels,” Siargao and Palawan.
MANILA, Philippines — With four months left in 2024, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has yet to complete any of its 885 barangay development projects that were funded this year, according to the Department of the Interior and Local Government.