The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has included a provision of P16.9 billion for wage increases in the planned 2024 National Expenditure Program (NEP), a significant step toward improving the welfare of government employees. With the pay increase being implemented gradually under the Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund (MPBF) rules, the allocation is expected to benefit a sizable number of …

Philippines – The representatives scored as unconstitutional where a presidential branch reminder banning authorities from going to Senate hearings on the public authority’s strange agreements with Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. as key offices behind the arrangements were left unrepresented when the test continued. President Rodrigo Duterte officially restricted authorities from going to the blue lace panel’s hearings through a reminder gave …

In spite of resistance representatives’ cases, there was no overpricing in the Department of Budget and Management (DBM’s) obtainment of face veils at the stature of the pandemic in 2020, the executive of the Commission on Audit (COA) pronounced yesterday. They stated that there is no place in the COA report on DBM that there was overpricing. There’s no assertion …

Malacañang and the Department of Budget and Management have withheld at least P80bn in congressional realignments, Senator Panfilo Lacson said Wednesday. Advertisement Lacson said some legislators tried to realign at least P80 billion from the “Build, Build, Build” flagship program of the administration to the “Pet Projects” of their districts within the national budget for 2020. He praised President Rodrigo …