Financial aid ‘was compromised due to various lapses including duplication of aid, erroneous disbursements, and misidentification of eligible beneficiaries,’ state auditors say ...

The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s Ayuda para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (Akap) has become a beacon of transparency and efficient public fund management, said the chairman of the House ...

MANILA, Philippines — Despite warnings that government cash assistance programs function as "soft pork" and evidence of poor implementation, the bicameral conference committee approved doubling the ...

Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman said Friday said it is up to members of Congress to decide whether or not they would propose to fund the Ayuda para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (AKAP) again next year ...

CEBU, Philippines — Close to P8 million was distributed to a total of 1,592 Mandaue City beneficiaries of the national government's Ayuda Para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (AKAP) program. Mandaue City ...

MANILA -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development assured the public that their Ayuda Para sa Kapos sa Kita (AKAP) program will continue despite having no proposed budget allocation for 2026.

MANILA, Philippines — Most Filipinos are in favor of the continuation and expansion of the Ayuda sa Kapos ang Kita Program (Akap), according to polling firm Octa Research. The Tugon ng Masa survey, ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. expended considerable political capital after he ignored calls to scrap the controversial Ayuda Para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (Akap) and instead injected it with P26 ...

THE House of Representatives and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Wednesday clarified that the Ayuda para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (Akap) was not intended to finance the ...

MANILA, (PIA) — Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian clarified that the “Ayuda para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (AKAP)” is not a pork barrel fund and that ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has exempted 28 programs, including the controversial Ayuda Para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (Akap), from the ban on the release, disbursement ...