Gabriela Women’s Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas has promised to push for increased financial subsidies for victims of natural disasters in the 2023 annual budget. (Photo from Gabriela Women's Party-list Facebook) “In the upcoming budget deliberations, we will definitely push for more budget for...
State-run Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) opened 10,000 slots for the GSIS Educational Subsidy Program (GESP) for the academic year 2022-2023. (GSIS) Under GESP, at least 10,000 college students will benefit P10,000 from GSIS every year until they finish their chosen courses. This...
The Quezon City government on Wednesday, July 13, distributed fleet cards with P1,000 fuel subsidy to 274 tricycle drivers from the city’s second district. The beneficiaries who received the fuel subsidy cards on Wednesday were members of the Tricycle Operators and Drivers Association (TODA)...
The Anti-Crime and Terrorism Community Involvement and Support (ACT-CIS) Party-list group filed a bill proposing a P1,000 monthly allowance to indigent persons with disabilities (PWDs) to augment their financial capacities. Cora Clarin, a Person with Orthopedic Disability, is head of the Persons...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. is looking to expand the government's fuel subsidy to tricycle drivers. A tricycle association in Muntinlupa is requesting a P1 increase in fare (Photo from the Muntinlupa police's Facebook page) Marcos said this was among the matters they discussed during...
The Social Security System (SSS) announced its two new programs, the flexible payment schedule and the Contribution Subsidy Provider Program (CSPP), which will benefit the informal economy workers and other individually-paying members. (SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM FACEBOOK) In a statement released on...
(MANILA BULLETIN / FILE PHOTO) The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Wednesday, June 29, said it has started the distribution of P500 monthly subsidy per family to help the poor cushion the impact of higher prices of fuel and basic goods. Under the Targeted Cash Transfer (TCT)...
The Gabriela Women's Party-list has welcomed the lapsing into law of Republic Act (RA) 11861, better known as the Expanded Solo Parents' Welfare Act. Gabriela Women's Party-list logo (Facebook) "Gabriela Women's Party is ecstatic over the lapsing of Expanded Solo Parents' Welfare Act into law as RA...
The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) will provide P7,500 worth of financial assistance to eligible students for their mental health-related expenses. (UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES LOS BAÑOS FACEBOOK) This financial support is to be given per semester according to a news report...
The Department of Finance (DOF) maintained that the government should continue the more targeted approach of fuel subsidy as it warns against bowing to pressure to suspend excise taxes on petroleum. As the incoming Marcos administration is coming under pressure from several parties to implement a...
Noting the possibility of more price hikes in the coming weeks, Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda pleaded to the outgoing Duterte administration to hasten the release of still undistributed subsidies meant for poor Filipinos. Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (Facebook) Salceda was...
The Parañaque City government distributed fuel subsidy to around 90 fishermen in the city on Tuesday, May 31. Mayor Edwin Olivarez said aside from the fuel subsidy amounting to P3,000, the city government also distributed 10 kilos of rice to each beneficiary. Mar Jimenez, Public Information...
