ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (Facebook) House Deputy Majority Leader ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo has accused the National Food Authority (NFA) and the Commission on Audit (COA) of being "in cahoots" with each other on the issue of...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has aired concerns over the inability of Pinagkaisa Realty Corporation (PRC), a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC), to generate income. In the 2023 annual audit report on PRC released on Feb. 27, the COA said “the PRC has been operating without a...
The government signed an order to overhaul the decades-old guidelines for the sale and disposal of government properties. The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the Commission on Audit (COA) have inked the Joint Circular on the Revised Manual on the Disposal of Government Properties....
Former lawmaker and spokesman of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) Barry Gutierrez expressed support for former senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s call for a special audit by the Commission on Audit (COA) on Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte’s P51-billion allocation during the...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has advised the National Housing Authority (NHA) to screen strictly Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) members who apply in the Government Employees Housing Program (GEHP) intended for low-salaried personnel. NHA's laxity, COA...
Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano floated the idea of pre-auditing government projects under the Commission on Audit (COA) as it can be seen to aid the commission in enhancing its effectiveness and efficiency in carrying out its mandate. “Over the years, since the 1987 Constitution, COA has found the...
For the past six years ending in 2022, the House of Representatives (HREP) had received clean audit reports from the Commission on Audit (COA). “For CY (calendar year) 2022 and prior years, no Notice of Suspension, Notice of Disallowance, and Notice of Charge was issued,” COA said in its 2022...
Quezon City, with assets of P443.4 billion in 2022, is still the richest city in the Philippines. Cebu province is the wealthiest with assets of P235.7 billion, while Carmona (which became a city in July 2023) in Cavite was the richest municipality in 2022 with assets of P6.5 billion. Makati City...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has recommended that sanctions, like suspension of salaries, be imposed on erring officials of the Department of Information and Technology (DICT) for delay or non-submission of financial statements for three consecutive years. "The DICT did not submit the year-end...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has raised an alarm over the series of deaths of government-owned buffalos that are loaned out to farmer organizations for their dairy production. It then asked the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) and the Central Luzon State University (CLSU) to conduct a probe. While...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has granted the more than P2 million money claim of a construction company against the municipality of Maco in Davao de Oro for the delivery and installation of an outdoor LED (light emitting diodes) electronic billboard in 2019. However, COA denied the claim of CTEC...
