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State agencies pick up spending in January

By Mary Grace Padin | February 26, 2020 - 12:00am

State agencies picked up the pace of their spending in the first month of the year as they utilized more notices of cash allocation during the period, the Department of Budget and Management said.

Business

Government picks up spending in August

By Mary Grace Padin | September 18, 2019 - 12:00am

The national government picked up the pace of its spending in the first eight months as line agencies started to shift its...

Business

Budget delay slows release of cash allocations

By Mary Grace Padin | February 22, 2019 - 12:00am

The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) adjusted downward the Notices of Cash Allocation (NCA) it released to line agencies in the first month of the year, as the government is still operating under a reenacted...

Business

Gov’t agencies utilize 97% of NCAs in 2018

By Mary Grace Padin | January 28, 2019 - 12:00am

Government agencies exhibited a faster pace of disbursements in 2018 as shown by a higher utilization rate of notices of cash allocation (NCAs) due to the implementation of various reforms in the budget process,...

Business

State agencies slower in utilizing cash budget

By Mary Grace Padin | December 28, 2018 - 12:00am

State agencies have utilized 88 percent of their notices of cash allocation (NCA) in the past 11 months to fund their projects and programs, slower than the utilization rate posted in the same period in 2017, data...

Business

Gov’t shows higher NCA utilization rate

By Mary Grace Padin | July 23, 2018 - 12:00am

State agencies picked up the pace of their spending as they utilized more notices of cash allocation (NCA) in the first half, according to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).

Business

Government agencies use 83% of NCAs as of May

By Mary Grace Padin | June 11, 2018 - 12:00am

State agencies utilized 83 percent of their notices of cash allocation (NCA) in the first five months of the year, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said.

Business

P-Noy faces raps over DAP, PDAF

By Michael Punongbayan | October 23, 2015 - 10:00am

President Aquino was accused yesterday before the Office of the Ombudsman of illegal use of public funds through the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) and the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF). ...

Headlines

Gov’t infra spending rises 6.3%

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | February 25, 2015 - 12:00am

Government spending for infrastructure rose 6.3 percent to P237.3 billion in the first 11 months of 2014 with most of it going to reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts in communities devastated by Super Typhoon...

Business

Gov't spending to increase in H2

By Iris Gonzales | September 4, 2012 - 12:00am

The Aquino administration said government spending is expected to jump further in the second half of the year and would sustain the improvement in disbursements.

Business