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 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 ...

AKAP P26 billion (from zero); AICS P9.5 billion (P44.7 billion); MAIFIP P14.3 billion (P41.2 billion); TUPAD P3.4 billion (P18.3 billion). The big problem with these massive budget cuts and ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has granted the new request of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to exempt its Ayuda Para sa Kapos ang Kita Program ...

The guidelines are out for the release of cash aid and other forms of ayuda or assistance by the government even during the ...

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 ...

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 AKAP is a financial assistance program to individuals ... The P26-billion program became a point of contention in the passage of the 2025 budget, with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. allowing ...