The AKAP is flawed from the beginning. It just sprung up in the bicameral conference committee on the 2024 budget. It was not part of the public deliberations on the budget, neither in the House ...

Akap was first introduced in December 2023, when lawmakers were crafting the budget for 2024. In an ambush interview on the sidelines of the bicameral conference committee hearing last December 13 ...

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has approved an additional request from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to exempt its financial assistance program from the election ...

The House leadership, including Speaker Martin Romualdez, had earlier said they would fight to make sure the Akap budget—which Sen. Imee Marcos realigned to another social program, the ...

found that 80 percent of the survey respondents viewed AKAP as helpful in the financial stability of Filipinos. Only 10 percent said it was not helpful. While it was not in the original budget ...

Some lawmakers, including Senator Imee Marcos, had questioned AKAP’s funding in the 2025 national budget. The House of Representatives, however, denied claims that the program is being used as a ...

(UPDATE) A SURVEY by OCTA has found that 69 percent of Filipinos supported the Ayuda Para sa Kapos ang Kita (AKAP) program. In a statement on Sunday, OCTA said the survey conducted Jan. 25 to 31 found ...