MANILA, Philippines — Several groups and persons filed a petition yesterday, asking the Supreme Court (SC) to declare as unconstitutional the 2025 national budget, among others due to the allocation ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman said Friday said it is up to members of Congress to decide whether or not they ...

MANILA, Philippines — Despite warnings that government cash assistance programs function as "soft pork" and evidence of poor implementation, the bicameral conference committee approved doubling the ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. expended considerable political capital after he ignored calls to scrap the controversial Ayuda Para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (Akap) and instead injected it with P26 ...

Forty—two congressional districts in Metro Manila and Rizal will receive urgent assistance to flood-affected families under the Ayuda para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (AKAP), a lawmaker said on Thursday ...

MANILA, Philippines — A fiscal policy expert said the government can do away with an aid program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), maintaining that it is being merely used by ...

“The Akap program has demonstrated a strong impact with P26.157 billion in funds, or 99.31 percent utilization rate, from the total P26.7 billion budget allocation for 2024,” Dumlao said. Under the ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian on Wednesday defended the Ayuda para sa ...

LEGAZPI, Albay — Speaker Martin Romualdez has urged “some senators” opposing the Ayuda sa Kapos ang Kita Program (Akap) to talk to the people so that they can understand its significance. “Yes, we ...

SEN. Sherwin Gatchalian has vowed to block the revival of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Ayuda sa Kapos ang Kita (AKAP) Program, which provides direct cash and other forms ...

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian on Thursday (March 27) emphasized that the new guideline of the Ayuda sa Kapos ang Kita Program (AKAP) is now focused on ...

MANILA, (PIA) — Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian clarified that the “Ayuda para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (AKAP)” is not a pork barrel fund and that ...