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Inalis sa Senate version ng 2025 budget ng DSWD ang pondo para sa "AKAP Program."
Inalmahan 'yan ni House Speaker Martin Romualdez, at iginiit na maraming minimum wage earner ang umaasa sa programa. May report si Sandra Aguinaldo.


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Transcript
00:00The Senate version of the 2025 budget of the DSWD removed the fund for the ACAP program.
00:07It is said that it can only be done by one person and another program of the DSWD.
00:12House Speaker Martin Romualdez, who is a minority,
00:15warned that many minimum wage earners are depending on the program.
00:18Sandra Aguinaldo has the report.
00:24This year, the implementation of the ACAP or Ayuda para sa Kapos Ang Kita Program started.
00:30Its aim is to provide financial assistance to minimum wage earners
00:34who earn P21,000 or less per month against the effects of inflation.
00:41The fund for ACAP for the next year was removed from the Senate version.
01:01And P41 billion added for AICS.
01:04Senator Aimee Marcos explained that the sponsor of the DSWD budget
01:09can only be done by one person.
01:11The ACAP and AICS or Assistance to Individuals in Crisis situation.
01:16According to some senators, it is also not included in the proposed 2024 budget of the DSWD
01:22and also not included in the Senate and House versions of the budget.
01:27It just suddenly appeared in the version of the Bicameral Conference Committee.
01:32It also did not go to the poorest Filipinos.
01:50But House Speaker Martin Romualdez, who is one of the supporters of ACAP, did not agree.
01:56Some in the Senate do not seem to understand because they do not go down too much.
02:02There are many who need the fund of ACAP and he is also ready to fight the camera.
02:08Will we remove ACAP? Yes!
02:11What do we say to the Senator? Will we remove it? Yes!
02:16Romualdez ordered the House Appropriations Committee
02:19to try to get ACAP back when the National Budget was discussed in the Bicameral Conference Committee.
02:26Sandra Aguinaldo reporting for GMA Integrated News.
02:49.

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