Drilon assures Noy: No cut in P21-billion CCT budget Angie M. Rosales 11/08/2010

Drilon assures Noy: No cut in P21-billion CCT budget

Angie M. Rosales 11/08/2010

An ally gave President Aquino an assurance yesterday that the Senate will not slash the P21-billion budget for the controversial conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) despite the appre-hensions aired by legislators on possible misuse and abuse of the huge fund.

“I have yet to see the House (version) but most likely the (Senate) finance committee will not slash (a portion of) it,” Sen. Franklin Drilon said yesterday.

Although the proposed P1.6-trillion national budget for 2011 is still to be transmitted by the House of Repre-sentatives to the Senate, since it had hurdled only the House’s second reading, Drilon said senators had scrutinized the CCT program at their marathon hearings prior to the congressional recess..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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