“Television host and senatorial aspirant Willie Revillame says 94% to 97% of Filipinos are poor.”
What Vera Files found
About 17.54 million or 15.5% of Filipinos were poor in 2023, based on the latest poverty statistics of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). This puts the national poverty incidence among families at 10.9%, which is equivalent to 2.99 Filipino families without enough income to meet their basic food and non-food needs.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Willie Revillame made this claim around 8 October 2024. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 24 October 2024, 16 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/XH6K_3C80Vo?t=364
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This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.