MANILA, Philippines — The contentious Ayuda para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (AKAP) has been restored in the bicameral conference committee's approved version of the 2025 national budget. The AKAP ...

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 — Sen. Imee Marcos is recommending the merging of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) controversial Ayuda sa Kapos ang Kita Program and Assistance to ...

MANILA, Philippines — Senator Imee Marcos asserted that the P26.7 billion insertion in the 2024 national budget to bankroll the Ayuda sa Kapos ang Kita Program (AKAP) has “defunded billions of pesos ...

THE Executive Branch’s social service programs, which have become an object of dispute between administration officials and leaders of Congress, are seen to become the sticking point once the Senate ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Senator Imee Marcos has urged her brother, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to make a thorough review of the ...

MANILA, Philippines – The bicameral conference committee approved on Wednesday, December 11, the restoration of the budget for the cash aid program conceptualized under the leadership of Speaker ...

As the bicameral conference committee started deliberating on the proposed P6.352 trillion 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA) on Thursday, a vice chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations ...

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 ...