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.
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