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Tag: national budget

  • Migz Zubiri
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Zubiri na maaaring gamitin ang confidential funds para sa pagkukumpuni ng mga silid-aralan hindi totoo

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 01, 2022 12:29 PM

    Mali ang pahayag ni Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri noong Nob. 7 na maaaring gamitin ang confidential funds sa pagkukumpuni ng mga silid-aralan.

    2023, commission on audit, Confidential and Intelligence Funds, Koko Pimentel, Migz Zubiri, national budget, Senate

  • Migz Zubiri
    Categories FACT CHECK NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Zubiri inaccurately claims that confidential funds can be used for repair of classrooms

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 01, 2022 12:29 PM

    A 2015 Commission on Audit (COA) set of guidelines defines confidential expenses as lump sum amounts for “surveillance activities in civilian government agencies.” It categorically states that “in no case shall (confidential or intelligence funds) be used for … construction or acquisition of buildings or housing structures.”

    2023, commission on audit, Confidential and Intelligence Funds, Koko Pimentel, Migz Zubiri, national budget, Senate

  • VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Tatlong bagay na kailangan mong malaman tungkol sa mga confidential at intelligence fund

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 30, 2022 1:15 PM

    Inaprubahan ng Senado noong Nob. 23 ang panukalang P5.27 trillion na pambansang budget para sa 2023. Ni-realign nito ang hindi bababa sa P170 milyon na confidential na pondo ng iba’t ibang ahensya ng gobyerno sa kanilang maintenance at iba pang operating expenses.

    2023, commission on audit, confidential funds, Department of Budget and Management, Edcel Lagman, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, General Appropriations Act, house of representatives, intelligence funds, Koko Pimentel, Migz Zubiri, national budget, Senate

  • VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds
    Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 30, 2022 1:15 PM

    What are confidential and intelligence funds? For what can these be used?

    2023, commission on audit, confidential funds, Department of Budget and Management, Edcel Lagman, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, General Appropriations Act, house of representatives, intelligence funds, Koko Pimentel, Migz Zubiri, national budget, Senate

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    Categories Commentary

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    By Tita C. Valderama  |  Sep 19, 2022 2:38 PM

    The government’s proposed national budget for 2023 is heavy with confidential and intelligence funds, but it is bereft of amounts needed to produce intelligent students, provide roofs for the homeless and pay for health workers’ benefits.

    confidential fund, national budget, national expenditure program, palace parties

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