Leonen: PDIC, PhilHealth funded bulk of 2024 UAs
Berberabe clarified that similar funding sources are not indicated in the 2025 and 2026 GAAs.
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Berberabe clarified that similar funding sources are not indicated in the 2025 and 2026 GAAs.
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The practice that intensified over the past three years under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was the manipulation of the budget to favor the insertion of pet…
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Budget experts are confident the Supreme Court may impose limitations on, if not invalidate, the Unprogrammed Appropriations (UA) in the annual national…
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Once the General Appropriations Act is passed, the executive suddenly discovers it alone gets to decide which projects live and which die.
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By exposing how the administration and its congressional partners have gamed the system, Drilon has placed the real question before the justices.
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Congress moved roughly P303 billion in programmed items — the Armed Forces of the Philippines modernization, universal tertiary education, personal benefits,…
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The Supreme Court heard pointed arguments on Tuesday questioning the legality of “unprogrammed appropriations” (UA) in the national budget.
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The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday heard arguments from lawyer and former Senate President Franklin Drilon, who stressed that unprogrammed appropriations are…
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard pointed arguments questioning the legality of “unprogrammed appropriations” (UA) in the national budget.
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The Supreme Court will begin hearing petitions this week challenging provisions in the 2026 national budget that allow the continued use of unprogrammed funds,…
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The Supreme Court of the Philippines is set to hear petitions questioning provisions in the 2026 national budget that allow the continued use of unprogrammed…
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The Supreme Court (SC) has scheduled oral arguments next month on consolidated petitions challenging provisions on unprogrammed funds and Special Accounts in…
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The latest budget data, covering the Philippine government’s fiscal performance for the first 11 months of last year, showed a P1.26-trillion deficit, up 7.38…
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Joseller “Yeng” Guiao has been a head coach in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) since 1990, or for a total of 33 seasons, interrupted only by a…
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The trigger was activated through a racket initiated by a collusion between Congress leaders and then Finance Secretary Ralph Recto.
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The syndicate within government repurposed the UA to feed its appetite for pork, inflating it to unprecedented levels.
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Between the NEP and the final GAA, legislators removed the bulk of these projects from the programmed budget.
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Legislation must be proposed to prohibit the unprogrammed allocations in the budget that had become the source of abuses.
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