MANILA, Philippines — Some P2.06 billion, put aside within the 2025 Normal Appropriations Act for the federal government’s Tulong Dunong program (TDP), is predicted to learn 137,000 school college students nationwide.
Quezon Metropolis Rep. Marvin Rillo, vice chairperson of the Home of Representatives’ larger and technical schooling committee, mentioned that every program beneficiary would obtain P15,000 in money help this yr.
In a press release on Sunday, Rillo, who can be a member of the Home appropriations panel, mentioned: “Within the 2025 Normal Appropriations Regulation, Congress earmarked the sum of P2.06 billion for the TDP, which supplies grantees with money support of P7,500 per semester, or P15,000 per educational yr.”
“We’re completely decided to maintain up the annual funding for the TDP, which has helped to minimize the monetary difficulties of scholars pursing their school schooling,” Rillo identified.
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The TDP, below the Fee on Increased Training (CHEd), is among the many authorities’s tertiary schooling subsidy applications.
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It goals to “assist at the least the partial value of faculty education, inclusive of education-related bills of the grantee.”
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To avail of the TDP, each new and persevering with grantees have to be enrolled in any undergraduate program in a CHEd-accredited public or non-public school or college.
Beneficiaries are required to submit licensed true copies or electronically generated certificates of enrollment within the CHEd-recognized college.