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DBM defends unprogrammed funds in 2024 budget
The Philippine Star
|January 18, 2024
The Department of Bud- location get and Management (DBM) maintained yesterday that the nearly P450 billion in unprogrammed appropriations in this year's budget is constitutional after opposition lawmakers asked the Supreme Court (SC) to nullify the allocation.
Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman defended the unprogrammed funds approved on top of the record P5.768-trillion budget for 2024 during the Kapihan sa Manila Bay forum.
On Monday, Albay Rep Edcel Lagman, Camarines Sur Rep. Gabriel Bordado Jr. and Basilan Rep. Mujiv Hataman filed a 27-page petition for certiorari and prohibition on the unprogrammed allocation.
Under the 2024 budget, unprogrammed appropriations increased to P731.4 billion from the original proposal of P281.9 billion. This means that lawmakers inserted P449.5 billion during the bicameral conference committee.
"It is not unconstitutional since it is not yet included in the budget. It is not automatically released unlike those other parts of the budget that we release on day one," Pangandaman said.
This story is from the January 18, 2024 edition of The Philippine Star.
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