House minority leader and 4Ps Partylist Rep. Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan has urged the government to raise the number of conditional cash grants for poor households under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), saying the purchasing power of the dole-outs has been severely eroded by steep increases in the prices of basic commodities. Libanan, together with […]
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The Bureau of Immigration (BI) can help generate new government earnings needed to bankroll additional cash aid or “ayuda” for poor households reeling from the skyrocketing prices of basic commodities, 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino Libanan. “There’s no question that the BI can easily raise between P10 billion to P12 billion in annual revenues, possibly more,” […]
With the House of Representatives back in hybrid session after a two-week strict lockdown, Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte is pushing for the swift passage of a separate bill that seeks to grant every low-income Filipino household a subsidy of P10,000 as a way to spur growth in the fourth quarter by boosting domestic consumption, […]