The government economic team is expected to explore a possible assistance program for middle-income families as ordered by President Duterte, according to Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, spokesperson of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nograles said, however, that the program seeking to help middle class households does not necessarily have to be a social amelioration package.
Nograles pointed out that there are “other ways where in we can help the middle class and not in the same as the social amelioration .” Cavite Governor Juanito Victor Remulla recently sent a letter to President Duterte seeking to include the middle class families in the government’s social amelioration program for households affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Remulla urged the President to consider the welfare of the middle class, saying they are “often overlooked” even though they pay the most taxes and are law-abiding citizens.
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