Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III has questioned the Department of Education (DepEd) voucher program which ballooned from P16.534 billion to P39.326 billion under the 2023 National Expenditures Program. READ:
He also sought assurance that the cash grants will go to the intended beneficiaries of the program.
Pimentel also said that the budget for the voucher program for private senior high school was only P13.692 billion in 2021; P23.93 billion in 2020, and P18.756 billion in 2019. “We are entrusted with the job of being the Senate’s chief fiscalizer and it will be a huge disservice to the Filipino people if we do not bring this to the attention of the agency involved,” he added.
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