Duterte increases ayuda for poor households from P200 to P500

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An attendant fills up a tricycle with gasoline at a petrol station in Manila on March 15, 2022.

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MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte ordered that the monthly financial aid for poor households must be increased to P500 from P200 in a bid to help them cope with the sustained fuel price hikes. 

 

During the ceremonial signing of three laws on Monday, he told the finance department to look for more funds to augment the P200 monthly ayuda which the State will distribute to poor families for an entire year. 

 

"I was talking to Sonny [Dominguez] about feedback on the ground about the ayuda of 200 [pesos]. I told him, it's too small. Too small for one month. I said he should look for more funds," Duterte said in Filipino, referring to his talk with the Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III. 

 

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