“President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says he has instructed his Cabinet secretaries to continue giving cash assistance and subsidies to poor Filipinos amid the COVID-19 pandemic until the government feels the people could already stand on their own feet.”
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Vera Files says: Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno said during a budget hearing at the House of Representatives in August that giving cash assistance in relation to the pandemic "should already be discontinued because we have actually f…