By: Jessa Mae Mejica
P40,000,000 additional budget to fill the shortfall in the funds in Naic, Cavite.
The Naic local government will distribute an additional P40,000,000 budget to fill the shortfall in the funds allocated by the national government with the aid of their town, Naic Mayor Junio Dualan shared on April 8, 2021, Thursday.
He started explaining that the assistance provided by the government to their town is in fact insufficient for all households.
"Gaya po ng aking nabanggit sa dati ko pong post ay Php 115,822,000.00 po ang inilaang pondo sa atin ng National Government at ito po ay buong puso kong ipinagpapasalamat sa ating mahal na Pangulo Rodrigo Duterte," Dualan began.
"Ang naging basehan po dito ay 2010 census which is 11 years ago. Kung atin pong susumahin ang nasabing Php 115,822,000.00 kung bibigyan ng Php 4,000.00 per household ay ka-kasya lamang po para sa 29,000 households. Sa kasalukuyan po ay more or less 49,000 households na po ang bayan ng Naic. Kulang po tayo ng pondo para sa nalalabing 20,000 households”, he continued.
There is no additional financial assistance provided by the national government through the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), he said. So they called for a meeting with the local chief executive together with the members of the municipal council and decided that their Local Government Unit (LGU) will fill the missing budget.
Dualan stated, "Ang solusyon pong aming napagkasunduan ay ang mga supplemental budget ng halagang Php 40,000,000.00 mula sa savings ng ating munisipyo upang punuan ang kakulangan at mas marami pa ang mabigyan ng ayuda."
He added that they agreed that the distribution will be Php 1,000.00 to a MAXIMUM of Php 4,000.00 per Household depending on how many people live there. He also said that the distribution schedule is on a first come first serve basis which means that the barangay who is able to be the first to submit will be scheduled first for the distribution after the validation of the list of beneficiaries they submitted.
Based on the Department of the Interior and Local Government directive, local government units are obliged to finish the distribution of the financial assistance 15 days after the actual receipt of the funds.
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