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In the Marcos budgets, however, the UA mutated into a receptacle to allow the insertion of the pork barrel in the budget with guaranteed funding.
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In the Marcos budgets, however, the UA mutated into a receptacle to allow the insertion of the pork barrel in the budget with guaranteed funding.
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The P60 billion in excess PhilHealth funds, recently ordered returned by the Supreme Court to the state insurer, were funneled to the contentious unprogrammed…
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Justice Hernando’s position is direct and uncompromising. Unprogrammed appropriations, he argues, are unconstitutional in any form.
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Former House Appropriations Chair Isidro Ungab has raised concerns over the handling of Philippine Health Insurance Corporation funds, calling recent fund…
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The Constitution has no provisions that contemplate the UA; thus, the justice said the SC is duty-bound to nullify it.
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Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Ramon Paul L. Hernando, in a separate concurring opinion regarding the court’s recent ruling on PhilHealth funds, argued…
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Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Ramon Paul L. Hernando, in a separate concurring opinion on the PhilHealth funds ruling, said the inclusion of…
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. enabled the bicameral conference committee to increase the unprogrammed appropriations (UA) in the 2024 budget by P450 billion,…
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A ship passenger who goes missing is probably the worst thing that can happen in a sea journey.
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Projects that had long been planned were suddenly put in the UA, which amounted to about P1.45 trillion over three years.
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The funds were transferred to the National Treasury, creating a new revenue stream to ‘trigger’ the release of the UA.
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A Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) data shows that Sarangani Representative Steve Solon obtained the largest share, averaging 2.76 billion…
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Senator Christopher “Bong” Go raised concerns during the Department of Budget and Management’s (DBM) 2026 budget hearing, questioning the sharp rise in…
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The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) can’t escape culpability for the perversion of the 2025 national budget, since it is responsible for releasing…
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A whopping P9.2 billion in unprogrammed appropriations (UA) was allocated for the Visayas in recent national budgets to bankroll flood control projects, with…
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A whopping P9.2 billion in unprogrammed appropriations (UA) was allocated for Visayas in recent budgets to bankroll flood control projects, with the lion’s…
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