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The House Committee on Banks and Financial Intermediaries approved the Committee Report and the amended Substitute Bill to four bills seeking to strengthen rural banks in the country by amending further for the purpose Republic Act 7353 or the Rural Banks Act of 1992, as amended. These are House Bill 4256 by AAMBIS-OWA Partylist Representative […]
A total of 52,400 senior citizens in Nueva Ecija’s first congressional district received financial assistance amid the pandemic. The aid came from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the family of 1st District Rep. Estrellita Suansing. Suansing, who personally supervised the distribution of P1,000 to every senior citizen at the municipal gym […]
Agusan del Norte Rep. Lawrence Fortun appealed to all private schools not to hike tuition and other fees for 2021 until 2022. Fortun said Congress is working with CHED and DepEd to aid distressed private schools to prevent fee hikes. “We proved this with the pandemic tax rates, which the small non-profit proprietary school can […]
A House of Representatives panel approved the tax provisions of the measure that seeks to provide a free and culture-sensitive civil registration system for Indigenous Peoples (IPs). In a virtual meeting, the House Ways and Means Committee approved without amendments, Section 6 of the unnumbered substitute bill to House Bills 1332 and 2812, principally authored […]
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) has achieved a 100-percent resolution rate on citizens’ complaints and concerns coursed through the government’s 8888 Citizens’ Complaint Center (CCC) in the first two months of the year. In a letter to NEA Administrator Edgardo Masongsong, 8888 CCC Director Bernadette Casinabe recognized the efforts of the agency in ensuring that […]
A lawmaker stressed the need for policies that can help bring down commodity prices, particularly food prices, as the inflation in April remained unchanged from the previous month at 4.5 percent. Marikina City Representative Stella Quimbo said the main contributor continues to be the inflation for food and non-alcoholic beverages, which made up 40.9% of […]
The House Committee on Energy tasked a technical working group (TWG) to fine-tune a measure that seeks to strengthen the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) to make it more responsive and flexible in terms of its exploration, exploitation, and development. During a virtual hearing, the House panel moved to form the TWG to finalize House […]
A House of Representatives panel approved the P405.6-billion stimulus package under the Bayanihan to Arise As One Act or the Bayanihan 3 to boost the country’s economic recovery from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The House Ways and Means Committee approved the substitute bill to the third Bayanihan measure, which would contain direct emergency […]
A partylist lawmaker has appealed to Metro Manila mayors to allow house-to-house vaccinations against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for senior citizens aged at least 70 and above, as well as persons with disabilities (PWDs). In a letter to Metro Manila Council chairman Edwin Olivarez, Senior Citizens Partylist Representative Rodolfo Ordanes said local government units (LGUs) […]
A party-list lawmaker urged President Rodrigo Duterte to provide genuine representation from the labor sector in social security institutions to strengthen social dialogue towards employment recovery. During the Task Group on Economic Recovery and the National Employment Recovery Strategy (NERS) Job Summit, TUCP Partylist Representative Raymond Mendoza said strengthening social dialogue mechanisms in government institutions […]