Latest in SONA 2026Transport workers will continue to benefit from the fuel subsidy under the Uplift framework, ongoing service contracting, and ₱176 million for the Public Transport Modernization Program under the Marcos administration’s proposed 2027 national budget, Budget Secretary Kim Robert De Leon said…
The Marcos administration’s proposed 2027 national budget grows the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) allocation by 12.66% from the current year, with major provisions covering rice programs, irrigation, farm-to-market roads, and crop insurance for 2.3 million small farmers and fisherfolk, Budget…
The Marcos administration’s proposed 2027 national budget allocates ₱51.6 billion for the social pension of indigent senior citizens and ₱3.4 billion for the Expanded Centenarians Act, which now provides financial assistance to seniors reaching the milestone ages of 80, 85, 90, 95, and 100, not…
The Philippine National Police (PNP) will receive funding for 2,000 new patrolmen and patrolwomen, ₱2 billion to fill existing unfilled positions, ₱6.2 billion in capital outlay for police stations and headquarters, and a 10% increase in maintenance and operating expenses under the Marcos…
The revised Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) modernization program receives ₱50 billion in the Marcos administration’s proposed 2027 national budget, up from ₱40 billion in the 2026 General Appropriations Act (GAA), Budget Secretary Kim Robert De Leon said Saturday. Likewise, De Leon said…
The Marcos administration’s proposed 2027 national budget sets aside ₱73.67 billion to fund the higher subsistence allowance for all 583,000 military and uniformed personnel, on top of a 5% base pay increase and a ₱2,000 monthly personnel economic relief allowance for all government workers…
Budget Secretary Kim Robert De Leon is moving to eliminate one of the most persistent sources of delay in government salary processing, saying agencies will no longer need to formally request salary deficiency funding from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) once they update their…
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has approved the release of an additional ₱6 billion this year to clear the accumulated backlog of salary differentials owed to the 80,000 public school teachers who were promoted under the Expanded Career Progression program but had not yet received…
The Marcos administration’s proposed 2027 national budget sets aside ₱10.3 billion to ensure that every public school teacher in the country receives a ₱10,000 annual teaching allowance, the former chalk allowance, renamed to reflect the reality that most classrooms no longer use chalk, Budget…
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has set aside ₱12 billion in the proposed 2027 national budget for the Expanded Career Progression program for public school teachers, double the ₱6 billion allocated this year. fulfilling President Marcos’ directive that no teacher should retire at…
Even a fifth-class municipality, the smallest and poorest classification of local government unit in the Philippines, receives multiple streams of funding from the Marcos administration’s proposed ₱7.2 trillion 2027 national budget, Budget Secretary Kim Robert De Leon said Saturday. De Leon made…
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) used a simple bilao—a winnowing basket—to explain how the Marcos administration’s proposed ₱7.2 trillion 2027 national budget is allocated. Roughly half of the budget goes to salaries and pensions, more than 20% to infrastructure, and the remainder…
The Marcos administration’s proposed 2027 national budget of ₱7.2 trillion was built on one governing idea: that the money Filipinos contribute to government must find its way back to them as real, tangible services, Budget Secretary Kim Robert De Leon said Saturday. De Leon made the statement in…
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has set a new policy requiring all new airports to have a minimum runway length of 2,100 meters, enabling the operation of larger Airbus aircraft that can carry more than double the passengers of the turboprop planes currently limited to shorter runways—with…
The Bukidnon Airport will be completed by December 2027, with the terminal building and a turboprop-capable runway finishing first, ending decades of reliance on the three-hour overland trip from Cagayan de Oro for residents of Bukidnon, Cotabato, and neighboring provinces, Transportation…
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