The budget cabinet Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) announced on Thursday that the allotted budget for super typhoon Yolanda operations was at P100 billion as P20 billion had been placed to program expenditures and P80 billion in unprogrammed plans.

Budget Secretary Florencio Abad told reporters after the DBCC 2014 proposed national budget meeting that the P100 billion for 2014 Yolanda reconstruction would be additional to the P34.5 billion for disbursement this year.

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