MANILA, Philippines — A total of 91 percent of the social aid for residents of the National Capital Region (NCR) and four adjacent provinces has been distributed already, Interior Secretary Eduardo Ao said in a statement issued on Monday.
According to him, this amounts to P21.06 billion of funds disbursed in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal — the five areas making up the so-called NCR Plus, which were placed under an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) bubble in March due to a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Ao called it a success for local government units (LGUs) to deliver on their promise to distribute the P1,000 per individual before May 15.
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