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AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee urged the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to fulfill its mandate to provide reliable health insurance coverage to our countrymen and to promptly pay their dues to private hospitals using the profits it has made from its investments. Lee made the statement on Wednesday during the budget briefing of […]
Amid President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr.’s directive to set price ceilings on rice nationwide, AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee renewed his call to implement long-lasting government interventions to alleviate rising rice prices. Under Executive Order No. 39 signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on Aug. 31, President Marcos approved imposing a price cap at […]
Affordable, stable rice prices are possible if the government is willing to invest to ensure the food security of our country. This according to AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee who filed a bill to establish a program that will provide subsidies intended to lower rice prices while encouraging farmers to produce more rice. “Sa […]
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee hailed the passage of the bill that seeks to include adult education in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) benefits. Lee, the principal author of House Bill No. 8497, said the proposed legislation aims to “empower beneficiaries of the 4Ps to enable them to break the intergenerational cycle of […]
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee has urged the Department of Transportation – Land Transportation Office (DOTr-LTO) to automatically extend the validity of the driver’s licenses for 12 months after a Quezon City court issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) halting the LTO from receiving 5.2 million plastic cards from the successful bidder, Banner PlastiCard. […]
With international rice supplies and prices in a constant state of instability and unpredictability, and local rice production unable to guarantee affordable rice for consumers, AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee proposed the establishment of a subsidy program designed to encourage Filipino farmers to produce enough rice stocks to make the country rice self-sufficient. Dubbed […]
Amid mounting evidence of the potential hoarding of agricultural goods like rice and onions, AGRI Party-list Cong. Wilbert T. Lee on Thursday emphasized the need to actively enforce the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act to punish smugglers, hoarders, price manipulators and government employees and officials who take part in this crime, and reiterated the urgency of passing […]
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee on Monday lauded the passage on second reading by the House of Representatives of the measure which seeks to amend Republic Act No. 11310, or the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) Act, by providing capacity building—specifically education, entrepreneurship training, and skills upgrading—for adult beneficiaries. Lee, the principal author and […]
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee reiterated his call for the government to focus on interventions to curb food inflation, after a survey revealed more Filipinos families had experienced involuntary hunger in the past three months. “Hindi po nakapagtataka na mas maraming mga kababayan natin ang nagugutom dahil patuloy pa rin ang pagtaas ng presyo […]
The government must aggressively address factors contributing to food inflation or it will be unable to hit its 2.9% inflation target in 2024. This was stressed by AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee, who on Tuesday said that with food and non-alcoholic beverages being the top group contributing to the June 2023 inflation of 5.4%, […]