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SENATORS on Tuesday assailed the questionable inclusion of nearly P27 billion in funds in the 2024 budget for the “AKAP” program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development supposedly as payouts for poor families, but for which the DSWD had no clear guidelines yet, even as a promise of…
SENATORS on Tuesday assailed the questionable inclusion of nearly P27 billion in funds in the 2024 budget for the “AKAP” program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development supposedly as payouts for poor families, but for which the DSWD had no clear guidelines yet, even as a promise of…
The first visually-impaired Bar passer in the Philippines is now employed at the Department of Social Welfare and Development central office. Anthony Mark Emocling is working as a legislative liaison specialist detailed under the Department Legislative Liaison Office (DLLO). He was hired on “cost of service” basis, which is usually 12 months but can renewed.
Strained by billions of pesos spent by the previous administration to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, government appeårs to be financially incapable of supporting three bills seeking to give P2,000 monthly social pension for persons with disability (PWDs). This fact surfaced in today’s public heari
For failure to provide basic information like the total number of persons with disabilities, Sen. Imee Marcos has threatened to deprive the National Council on Disability Affairs of its P20.4-million budget.