The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Board of Commissioners approved a cumulative budget amounting to P63.8 million for the “NCCA Assistance Program in Response to the Call for Bayanihan to Heal as One Act” to augment the agency’s initial P4 million quick response cash assistance program. The move is a result of the referendum conducted from April 17 to April 22.

Initially, the cash assistance under the “NCCA Assistance Program for Artists and Cultural Workers Under the State of Calamity” provides P5,000 for artists and cultural workers who are not under an employer-employee relationship, without regular income, working freelance and whose source of income has been affected by the enhanced community quarantine.