Tinanggal na ng Senado sa kanilang bersyon ng 2025 budget ng DSWD ang pondo para sa "AKAP Program." Pero inalmahan 'yan ng lider ng Kamara na iginiit na maraming minimum wage earner ang umaasa sa programa.
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00:00The Senate has already removed from their version of the 2025 budget of the DSWD the fund for the ACAP program.
00:09But the leader of the Camera, who was criticized by many minimum-wage earners,
00:14was the one who relied on the program. Sandra Aguinaldo was there.
00:21There is a dispute between the Senate and the Camera regarding the fund for the AYUDA-PARASAKAPOS income program or ACAP.
00:29This was followed by Senator Aimee Marcos' announcement, the sponsor of the budget of the DSWD,
00:34that the ACAP was already removed from the Senate version of the Senate.
00:38It's confusing. To be honest, I already removed the version of the Senate.
00:59It is said that the ACAP and the previous AICS or Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations can be unified.
01:29We don't want that, right?
01:35In 2024, the first ACAP was implemented to protect minimum-wage earners from the effects of inflation in the country.
01:44According to one of its sponsors, House Speaker Martin Romualdez,
01:48the ACAP will provide P3,000 to P5,000 assistance to qualified beneficiaries.
01:54But the ACAP is controversial.
01:56Some senators are challenging it because it was not included in the proposed 2024 budget of the DSWD
02:02and it was also not included in the previous version of the budget for the Camera and the Senate.
02:06It was just suddenly included in the version of the Bicameral Conference Committee.
02:11In the 2025 budget, the funds for this were tripled from P13 billion in 2024 to P39.8 billion for 2025.
02:23According to the Camera, the ACAP will provide assistance to minimum-wage earners who earn P21,000 or less every month.
02:32But according to the senators, this will not go to the poorest Filipinos.
02:37We don't have problems with the program in itself, but we wanted to make sure that it's clearer this time.
02:45Like what they're saying, this is for middle-class individuals.
02:52So that it's not targeted to the poorest of the poor sector of our society.
02:58Speaker Romualdez has changed his mind.
03:01He said that this fund needs a lot of people and he's ready to fight the camera.
03:06I'm a bit nervous because some of our friends in the Senate want to scrap the ACAP.
03:15Do you agree?
03:17Yes!
03:18Do you?
03:19Are we going to remove the ACAP?
03:20Yes!
03:21What do we say to the senators? Are we going to remove it?
03:25Yes!
03:26Romualdez has ordered the House Appropriations Committee
03:29to work hard to bring back the ACAP once the National Budget of the Bicameral Conference Committee has been discussed.
03:36I don't think the Senate will understand because they're not going down.
03:41What we're seeing is that this is what our fellow Filipinos want.
03:47This program from the DSWD.
03:50So I will tell our friends in the Senate to go around and ask the people what they want.
03:58What we're seeing is that our fellow Filipinos want this program.
04:05For GMA Integrated News, Sandra Aguinaldo, for Tutok, 24 hours.