00:00 Senator Amy Marcos questioned the assistance for the Kaposangkita Program or ACAP
00:05 of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
00:08 This is one of the criticisms of the Senate regarding the People's Initiative.
00:12 Some senators are concerned that the 26.7 billion pesos fund of the ACAP
00:18 could be used as a bait to get a signature in the People's Initiative.
00:23 Senator Marcos is still wondering why the ACAP is not included in the budget deliberations of the DSWD
00:29 and why it is still the budget sponsor.
00:32 It seems that the budget was already included in the Bicameral Conference Committee report.
00:35 Senator Marcos also received information that
00:39 House Speaker Martin Rumaldes is accepting programs like the ACAP.
00:45 GMI Integrated News is also trying to get Rumaldes to be its representative.
00:50 On the defense of DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian,
00:53 the ACAP is not yet using the fund because its guidelines are still being made.
00:58 The ACAP is supposed to be used by Filipinos near poor
01:01 or the minimum wage earners or graduates in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program
01:05 but it is possible that it will return to being poor.
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