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Several lawmakers filed a measure seeking to add dentists and medical technologists as vaccinators to help in the inoculation and effective and efficient rollout of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines in the country. House Committee on Health chair Angelina Tan, along with Marikina City Representative Stella Quimbo and Quezon City Representative Kit Belmonte, filed […]
Taguig-Pateros Representative Alan Peter Cayetano on Friday pushed for the proposal to give every family P10,000 in cash aid (ayuda) amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as he thumbed down the two rounds of cash aid amounting to P1,000 for every individual under the proposed Bayanihan to Arise as One Act (Bayanihan 3). Cayetano expressed hope that […]
A House of Representatives panel has approved a measure exempting election workers such as members of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs) from having their honoraria or allowances subjected to income and other withholding taxes. During a virtual hearing, the House Ways and Means Committee approved an unnumbered substitute bill that would provide income tax […]
The House Committee on Banks and Financial Intermediaries approved the Committee Report and the amended Substitute Bill to four bills seeking to strengthen rural banks in the country by amending further for the purpose Republic Act 7353 or the Rural Banks Act of 1992, as amended. These are House Bill 4256 by AAMBIS-OWA Partylist Representative […]
A total of 52,400 senior citizens in Nueva Ecija’s first congressional district received financial assistance amid the pandemic. The aid came from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the family of 1st District Rep. Estrellita Suansing. Suansing, who personally supervised the distribution of P1,000 to every senior citizen at the municipal gym […]
Agusan del Norte Rep. Lawrence Fortun appealed to all private schools not to hike tuition and other fees for 2021 until 2022. Fortun said Congress is working with CHED and DepEd to aid distressed private schools to prevent fee hikes. “We proved this with the pandemic tax rates, which the small non-profit proprietary school can […]
A House of Representatives panel approved the tax provisions of the measure that seeks to provide a free and culture-sensitive civil registration system for Indigenous Peoples (IPs). In a virtual meeting, the House Ways and Means Committee approved without amendments, Section 6 of the unnumbered substitute bill to House Bills 1332 and 2812, principally authored […]
The National Electrification Administration (NEA) has achieved a 100-percent resolution rate on citizens’ complaints and concerns coursed through the government’s 8888 Citizens’ Complaint Center (CCC) in the first two months of the year. In a letter to NEA Administrator Edgardo Masongsong, 8888 CCC Director Bernadette Casinabe recognized the efforts of the agency in ensuring that […]
A lawmaker stressed the need for policies that can help bring down commodity prices, particularly food prices, as the inflation in April remained unchanged from the previous month at 4.5 percent. Marikina City Representative Stella Quimbo said the main contributor continues to be the inflation for food and non-alcoholic beverages, which made up 40.9% of […]
The House Committee on Energy tasked a technical working group (TWG) to fine-tune a measure that seeks to strengthen the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) to make it more responsive and flexible in terms of its exploration, exploitation, and development. During a virtual hearing, the House panel moved to form the TWG to finalize House […]