“President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says giving continuing assistance is "at the top of [his administration's] priority list.”
What Vera Files found
Although the Marcos administration placed “social protection” as one of its budget priorities for “human capital development,” Sonny Africa, executive director of the nonprofit IBON Foundation, noted that the total allocation for these programs in 2023 is P33.28 billion less than the P262.67 billion for 2022.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. made this claim around 8 November 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 15 November 2022, 7 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has 62 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 43 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/FlxsgV5m5g4?t=164
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