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Executive Secretary Ralph Recto says the proposed 2027 National Expenditure Program (NEP) aims to benefit over a million Filipino teachers. 'The biggest chunk of the education budget... basically, the biggest is (allocated for) the payment of teachers, Recto said in an interviewon Aug. 27, 2026.

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00:00400 billion more, but like I always say, pag hindi ko ito sa Pilipinas sa LGSF, working with the local
00:07government units,
00:09pinakamalaki ang increase for the national tax allotment for all local government units.
00:16So it's about an 11% increase.
00:18Now, you have roughly a trillion pesos for education.
00:23So education is the biggest budget in 2027.
00:27That's roughly a trillion pesos.
00:29That will support roughly 30 million students, the biggest, again, in our history.
00:36The third is if you combine field head and the Department of Health, you have roughly a budget of 650
00:43million pesos for the health sector.
00:45So that is almost equivalent to the budget, or a little higher than the budget of DPWH.
00:51Then you have the infrastructure budget, which is roughly about 640 billion.
00:57So, agribulcer is about 250 billion.
01:01And then for security, you're looking at about more than 400 billion.
01:06If you combine the BNP and the AFP.
01:10So, basically, ang pirakamalaki dyan, yung pagbayad ng mga guro, mayigit isang milyon ng guro din natin dyan,
01:18teaching roughly about 25 million students pagdating sa elementary and secondary, sa K-12.
01:26So, yun ang pirakamalaki dyan.
01:27Depend ang pirakamalaki.
01:28Walang discretionary funds sa 2027 budget.
01:33Lahat ng mga nakalista dyan ay may program of work.
01:37Halimbawa, pagdating sa DPWH, lahat dyan may dokumento, lahat dyan may programa.
01:43Nah.
02:00I'll see ya.
02:00I'll see ya.
02:05Did you check that out?
02:06Bye-bye.

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