Tumayong saksi si Senador Jinggoy Estrada sa panunumpa ng pinakamamahal na kapatid nasi Senador JV Ejercito bilang naitalagang majority leader ng makapangyarihang Commission on Appointment. -Politiko News
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Christopher “Bong” Go opposed the proposal to stop COVID-19 aid distribution while Senator Jinggoy Estrada pushed for its “careful” review. The senators’ remarks came after Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno said that there is no need for the aid to continue as the country’s economy has recovered from the pandemic. “I totally disagree na…
Read more
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Appointments (CA) on Wednesday approved the nominations of the Philippines’ envoys to the United States (US) and the United Nations (UN). Before the CA’s plenary session, the Committee on Foreign Affairs deliberated on and recommended the approval of the nominations of Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to…
Read more
Inirekomenda ni Senator Jinggoy Estrada ang pagbibigay ng condonation o hindi pagpapataw ng multa sa mga household employers na hindi nakapagbayad ng kontribusyon sa Social Security System (SSS). Ang isinusulong na ito ay pinaniniwalaan ni Estrada na isang win-win solution dahil hindi na pagbabayarin ng multa sa utang na kontribusyon sa SSS ang mga amo…
Read more
Senator Jinggoy Estrada, taking up the cudgels for aging military veterans bearing the rising costs of medical and other pressing needs, prodded Congress on Monday to frontload passage of an awaited remedial law “proposing to increase by 350 percent to 488 percent their disability pension.” In pressing for an upward adjustment in their pension fund,…
Read more
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Jinggoy Estrada is seeking an increase in the disability pension of military veterans, saying the current rate they are receiving is not enough. Estrada, who chairs the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification, and Reconciliation, filed Senate Bill No. 683 to rationalize the disability pension of military veterans…
Read more
A SENATOR has refiled a bill that seeks to raise the military’s disability pension to as high as P10,000 from P1,700 a month. “Since expenses currently being incurred are so high, their meager pension that was increased almost three decades ago is no longer meaningful,” Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada, who heads the Senate committee on…
Read more
