“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.”
What Vera Files found
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 fully recovered, and because of the limited fiscal space."
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In short
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. made this claim around 8 November 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 11 November 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.
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=36
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