Gov't at risk of being swamped with cases with SC’s adverse ruling on PDAF

The Philippine government will be at risk of being swamped with cases if the Supreme Court would not allow the release of Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or the Congressional discretionary allocation which were already obligated or earmarked for certain initiative, a high-ranking official said.

Assistant Secretary Janet Abuel of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) made the warning considering that the Supreme Court decision declaring PDAF unconstitutional bans the government from paying its existing PDAF-funded obligations which already have obligated Special Allotment Release Order (SARO) but do not have Notice of Cash Allocation (NCA) issued by the DBM just yet.