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Seniors get ₱51.6 billion pension fund plus ₱3.4 billion Centenarians Act benefit starting at age 80 in 2027 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…
BBM’s 2027 budget sets aside ₱2 billion to fill PNP vacancies, ₱6.2 billion for police stations
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…
Marcos’ 2027 budget boosts AFP Modernization fund to ₱50B as PH ramps up military capability
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…
Marcos’ 2027 budget allocates ₱73.67 billion to fund higher pay for PH military, uniformed personnel
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…
DBM chief moves to cut red tape on salary releases, says agencies will no longer need to file requests by Q4 2026
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…
DBM releases ₱6 billion to clear backlog of salary differentials for 80,000 promoted teachers
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…
2027 proposed budget keeps ₱10,000 teaching allowance for over 1 million public school teachers
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…
DBM: 135,000 public school teachers to be promoted next year as 2027 proposed budget doubles career progression fund to ₱12 billion
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 the smallest Filipino town benefits from the Marcos administration’s ₱7.2 trillion 2027 proposed budget: DBM
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…
In plain terms, the DBM explains how the government’s ₱7.2 trillion 2027 budget is divided
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…
‘Bawat Bayan Makikinabang’: Marcos administration’s ₱7.2 trillion 2027 proposed budget to benefit every Filipino in every corner of the country, says DBM chief
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…
New DOTr policy: all airports must have 2,100-meter runways to allow Airbus jets and lower airfares
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…
Under Marcos admin, Bukidnon to get its first airport by December 2027
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…
In 1.5 years, NAIA PPP generated more revenue than 30 years of government operation
The Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) concession agreement has already generated ₱75 billion for the national treasury in just one and a half years of private operation—dwarfing the approximately ₱30 billion that government management produced over 30 years, or an average of ₱1 billion per…
New international terminal coming for Davao Airport as CAAP allocates ₱1 billion for improvements
A new international passenger terminal building is under construction at the Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao, the busiest regional airport in the Philippines, as part of a ₱1 billion total investment allocated by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) for…