The subsistence allowance for Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs) was increased to P100 per person daily under the 2026 national budget. Parañaque 2nd District Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan, a former assistant secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government, lauded the increase from P70 per day. "Persons deprived of liberty should be treated humanely with dignity and compassion. Anyone would say that P70 a day is severely inadequate to cover their meals," Yamsuan said in a statement. "Given today's food prices, one hundred pesos a day may still not be inadequate. But at least it's a start," he said. The bicameral committee that finalized the national budget measure for 2026 also raised the PDLs' medicine subsidy to P20 from P15 per day. "These increases cover PDLs in jails supervised by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), an attached agency of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), and in penal facilities managed by the Bureau of Corrections, which is under the Department of Justice (DOJ)," Yamsuan said in a statement. "We will advocate for an increase in the medicine allowance of PDLs in the national budget for the next fiscal year," he added.