Benefits granted to frontline workers under the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act or Bayanihan 2 remains available even after the law expires on June 30 this year.
Sen. Sonny Angara
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Angara, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance wh
Senator Juan Edgardo "Sonny" Angara has asked Health Secretary Francisco Duque III for the status of the distribution of benefits for health workers as provided for under the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act, or Bayanihan 2.
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The Philippine government must go slowly in shifting General Community Quarantine (GCG) to the slightly strict Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) by early March, Senator Edgardo ‘’Sonny’’ M. Angara said on Saturday, February 20.
Sen. Sonny Angara
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Angara maintained that a “better, faster” stimulus to the pandemic-hit economy is to immediately disburse the appropriations and carry out the recovery programs for the affected sectors.
“‘Yong Bayanihan 2 nga hindi pa fully implemented, so siguro dapat mas maganda fully implement muna nila lahat ng batas na pinasa natin (The Bayanihan 2 is still not fully implemented, so maybe they should fully implement all the laws that we have passed in Congress),” the chairman of the Senate finance committee said over radio DWIZ when asked about the proposed Bayanihan 3 being pushed in the House of Representatives.