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...
Senator Grace Poe on Wednesday, April 27, said the government should expedite the distribution of fuel subsidy to public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers and operators as they grapple with the weekly spike in oil prices. Poe, chair of the Senate Committee on Public Services, said that aside from...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) ordered all the local government units (LGUs) Friday, April 22, to submit the validated list of qualified tricycle drivers in the department’s regional offices on or before April 26 as another round of fuel subsidy is in the offing. PNA...
House Deputy Speaker and Cagayan De Oro 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez has underscored the call to exempt the Department of Agriculture's (DA) distribution of fuel subsidy from the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) spending ban. (FILE PHOTO) The national government, last March, approved a...
The chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means is projecting the release of the P500 household fuel subsidy soon or before the May 9 polls. Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) "I am quite positive that we will start distributing those subsidies before the...
House Deputy Speaker and Cagayan De Oro 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez said that the Commission on Election (Coomelec) should not consider the distribution of fuel subsidies political nor campaign spending. Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez “It is a government agency that is giving the money to...
An estimated 1. 2 million tricycle drivers and operators may be included in the recipients of the fuel subsidies as part of the government's assistance to the transport sector amid the oil price hikes, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said Thursday,...
Senators on Thursday lauded the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the “timely response” of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to allow the continued distribution of fuel subsidy to the public sector. “The order to allow the resumption of fuel subsidy distribution to public utility...
