in delivering subsidies via money remittance to beneficiaries of the Department of Agriculture’s Rice Farmers Financial Assistance (RFFA) program, many of whom do not have bank accounts.
around 2.94 million employees have been approved according to program criteria. This represents around 86 percent of the program’s target of 3.4 million small business employees,” she said.
Meanwhile, Ignacio said “almost 160,000 employers submitted applications for the program as the applications ended on May 8, 2020.”
Payouts for the first tranche of the SBWS subsidies began on April 30, one day ahead of the announced May 1 to 15 schedule of release.
“The SSS is currently processing Payouts for the second tranche them, but so far, the applications for are scheduled for May 16 to 31. (PR)
Launching of BP2 shows Duterte’s political will, commitment: Go By Jose Cielito Reganit
MANILA – Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go on Wednesday lauded the official launching of the Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-asa (BP2) Program as a testament of President Rodrigo Duterte’s political will and his administration’s commitment to help poor urban families return to their home provinces and start anew with new-found hope for a better life. The BP2 program was launched in Quezon City with a send-off of the first batch of 112 individuals returning to the province of Leyte. In an interview at the send-off ceremonies, Go pointed out while there were similar programs under past administrations, it is only under
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the present administration that the program got fully underway. “Ngayon lang po merong political will ang ating gobyerno, si Pangulong Duterte, na i-implementa ang programang ito. Pinirmahan niya ang executive order para po magtulungan ang lahat ng resources ng gobyerno
