House verifies OVP, DepEd confidential fund recipients

Updated Mon, April 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM Published Mon, April 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM

The House of Representatives is verifying if legitimate beneficiaries of the Office of the Vice President's (OVP) and Department of Education's (DepEd) confidential funds actually received the money.

House Deputy Majority Leader Paolo Ortega V stated that 942 individuals confirmed by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) to exist, including 670 from the OVP and 272 from DepEd, are now under scrutiny.

This verification is particularly important given the ongoing preparations for the Vice President's impeachment trial.

Ortega emphasized that confirming whether 'real' individuals received funds is as crucial as identifying fictitious entries.

The House is reviewing approximately 4,000 acknowledgment receipts to confirm fund disbursement.

Previous findings indicated a significant number of supposed recipients from both the OVP and DepEd lacked birth records in the PSA database.

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