Published August 4, 2021, 5:30 PM
Desperate times like the upcoming two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region (NCR) call for creative budgeting on the part of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), especially if it wants to give cash aid to displaced workers in a timely manner.
(File photo/ Screengrab from Zoom meeting)
DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III had bared plans to revive the agency’s one-time cash assistance program dubbed the COVID-19 Adjustment Measures Program or CAMP in order to allow for dole outs of P5,000 each to qualified workers from the formal sector.
In line with this, Bello wrote the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Tuesday, Aug. 3 to request for P2 billion that would be used for CAMP in time for the reimposition of ECQ in NCR or Metro Manila from Aug. 6 to 20. Earlier, Assistant Secretary Dominique Rubia-Tutay estimated that the number of workers in NCR who will be affected by the ECQ would reach 300,000 t
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