A spokesperson of the House prosecution team opined that the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) unmodified Commission on Audit (COA) opinion for 2025 does not magically exonerate Vice President Sara Duterte of alleged confidential funds misuse from previous years. House Assistant Majority...
The Office of the Vice President (OVP) on Thursday, July 2, said it received an unmodified opinion from the Commission on Audit (COA) for calendar year 2025, marking its fourth consecutive such audit opinion under Vice President Sara Duterte, days before her impeachment trial is scheduled to begin...
The Quezon City government has received its sixth consecutive Unmodified Opinion from the Commission on Audit (COA), reflecting its continued compliance with financial reporting standards and responsible management of public funds. The latest audit result affirmed the city’s continued efforts to...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has backed the Philippine government’s updated roadmap to overhaul how public funds are planned, spent, and monitored, saying stronger public financial management (PFM) systems are key to improving public services, strengthening resilience, as well as guarding...
Senator Raffy Tulfo has filed a resolution seeking to investigate the alleged billions worth of expired, nearly expired and unutilized medicines and vaccines procured by the Department of Health (DOH) from 2018 to 2024. Tulfo, in filing Senate Resolution No. 403, is referring to the Commission on...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has denied a P1.5-billion money claim filed by a group of insurance firms against the Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF) or Pag-IBIG Fund over allegedly unremitted fire insurance premiums tied to housing loans. In a 17-page decision dated March 17, 2026, the COA ruled...
Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Renato Solidum Jr. emerged as the highest paid member of President Marcos’ Cabinet in 2025, receiving a total net pay of P6.66 million, per the latest report released by the Commission on Audit (COA). In its 2025 Report on Salaries and...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has flagged almost P217 million worth of expired medicines in the medical inventory of the Department of Health (DOH). That is as of Dec. 31 last year and COA, in its Audit Observation Memorandum (AOM), said P476.5 million more are set to expire. “These figures...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon sees a "continuing pattern" of alleged misuse when it comes to confidential funds earmarked for the Office of the Vice President (OVP), particularly under impeachment respondent, Vice President Sara Duterte. This, after Ridon cited on Monday, April 20 a new...
The camp of Vice President Sara Duterte said on Monday, April 20, that it has yet to receive an official copy of the decision from the Commission on Audit (COA) presented during a recent congressional hearing, preventing it from issuing any formal comment on the matter. In a brief statement, the...
Pro-impeachment congressmen have made a big deal about the Commission on Audit’s (COA) apparent order for Office of the Vice President (OVP) officials to return disallowed confidential funds amounting to nearly ₱73.3 million. But what if Vice President Sara Duterte and the others involved...
There 's nothing political about the Commission on Audit’s (COA) decision to uphold its disallowance of P73 million worth confidential funds that the Office of the Vice President (OVP) spent in December 2022, Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon said. “If this [was] political, it would...
