“Confidential funds are called as such because local government executives have the discretion to use those.”
What Vera Files found
Joint Circular 2015-01 prescribes specific activities where confidential funds can and cannot be used. It does not give LGUs discretion to spend confidential funds the way they want to.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa made this claim around 8 October 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 17 October 2023, 9 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa has 26 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 12 of them false or fake, 13 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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