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LIBANAN TO DBM: INCLUDE PREGNANT WOMEN IN 4PS

A senior member of Congress sees the Philippines losing fewer mothers and newborns as a result of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s decision to give supplemental cash assistance to pregnant and lactating women under the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). “The additional targeted cash aid ordered by Malacañang will go a long way in improving […]

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BAYANING TSUPER WANTS CASH SUBSIDY FOR DRIVERS

Bayaning Tsuper (BTS), a road safety advocacy party-list, included continuing cash subsidy, housing, and legal counsel, among other, as its top legislative programs to enhance road safety stakeholders’ welfare. This, after it conducted a dialogue with the Alliance of Transport Operators and Drivers Association of the Philippines (ALTODAP), led by National President Boy Vargas, and […]

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VILLAFUERTE BATS FOR CASH AID TO POOR FAMILIES

Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte is making a stronger push for a third round of cash subsidies to poor and low-income households amid record job losses and faster food price hikes that threaten to shove many highly vulnerable families back to poverty in the face of the long-drawn-out Covid-19 pandemic and its consequent recession. Villafuerte […]