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Solons grill PhilHealth on P15.5-b IRM payments

LEGISLATORS want a more thorough investigation into the P15.5-billion advance payments made by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to hospitals under its controversial...

Teodoro asks lawmakers to allow Defense to provide OT, hazard pay

Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. is asking lawmakers for a special provision allowing the DND to provide overtime and hazard...

Solon vows to solve MUP pension poser

The chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations has vowed to find a “viable solution” to the Military and Uniformed Personnel (MUP) Pension problem...

House to begin marathon hearings on 2024 budget

The House Committee on Appropriations will begin on August 10 the deliberations on Malacañan’s proposed P5.768 trillion national budget for 2024. The House committee will...

E-governance bill now a step closer to law

A measure seeking to institutionalize the government’s transition to e-governance is one step closer to being passed into law after hurdling the House Committee...

PhilHealth not dying, will ‘last forever,’ exec insists

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is not dying, an official of the agency said  Monday, noting that its actuarial life will last “forever”. “PhilHealth...

House looking for ways to address agencies’ request for budget hike

The House Committee on Appropriations on Tuesday said it is looking at more sources to accommodate government agencies’ requests for budget increases next year,...

EO 79 policy blunder

"I hope this is resolved with urgency."     Last Friday, the House Committee on Appropriations started its series of deliberations for the government’s proposed P4.506-trillion national...

A more efficient disbursement

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60,000 cancer deaths per year

It doesn’t get nearly the same mileage in the primetime news as other pieces of legislation, but, if enacted, one particular bill can help...

House panel calls for budget revision

THE chairman of the House committee on appropriations on Sunday called on the Development Budget Coordination Committee to amend the proposed 2019 national budget...

Congress passes measure creating overdue coconut levy trust fund

The House committee on appropriations has passed a proposed measure seeking to create a coconut industry trust fund. “It is a very timely and vital...

House panel ends budget hearings

THE House committee on appropriations has wrapped up its budget hearings for the proposed P3.35-trillion General Appropriations Act and will now proceed with final...
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