THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) will withhold the salaries and benefits of officials and employees who have unliquidated cash advances following a report from the Commission on Audit that it had P2 billion unliquidated cash advances in 2022.

Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia said on Monday that the Commission en banc passed a resolution on the withholding of salaries and benefits of personnel until they have liquidated their cash advances.

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