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(Eagle News)–The Department of Social Welfare and Development on Thursday, May 9, said it was pushing for adjustments to 4Ps grants amid inflationary pressures. “I would like to reiterate what DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian said that adjusting the cash grants of 4Ps beneficiaries is not just timely but that it also preserves the value of the grants,” Asst. Secretary for Disaster Response Management Group (DRMG) Irene Dumlao said. Dumlao, who is also the DSWD spokesperson, […]
Funds to be used for education and health grants for poor families (Eagle News) — The Philippine government obtained additional funds to address the COVID-19 pandemic with a “fresh US$500-million financing package from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).” The Department of Finance said that this will “help support the country’s immediate budgetary requirements” particularly in funding the Pantawid Pamilya program for poor families, as the virus crisis continues to take its toll on the […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has allayed fears the new law institutionalizing the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) would make its intended beneficiaries too reliant on government’s cash doleouts. De Lima, the principal sponsor and author of the 4Ps bill in the Senate which was signed into law as RA 11310 by President Rodrigo Duterte, said in the first place, the cash transfers under the program are not provided forever, and are merely limited to seven […]
(Eagle News)—The Senate on Monday, Feb. 4, passed on third and final reading a bill that would institutionalize the 4Ps poverty reduction program of the government. Senate Bill No. 2117, authored by Senator Leila de Lima, was approved with 18 votes, zero votes against it and zero abstentions. The 4Ps is an existing national poverty reduction strategy and a human capital investment program under which poor households are given conditional cash for a maximum period […]
(Eagle News)–Former Social Welfare Secretary Judy Taguiwalo has denied President Rodrigo Duterte’s allegations she enrolled New People’s Army members to the 4Ps program of the government. 4Ps is a poverty alleviation program that stands for the Pantawid Pamilya Pasada Program. In a statement, Taguiwalo also denied she gave money to the NPAs. “In fact, it was the families of soldiers killed-in-action that were enrolled in the 4Ps upon your explicit instructions,” she said. According to […]
(Eagle News)- Nasa mahigit 600 na benepisyaryo ng Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program o 4Ps mula sa tatlong barangay sa isla ng Boracay, sa Aklan ang tumanggap ng tulong pinansyal mula sa Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) nitong Miyerkules, Mayo 30. Ayon kay Gemma Santerva, project development officer ng 4Ps sa Boracay, nasa P2.442 milyon ang inilabas nilang ayuda para sa buwan ng Pebrero at Marso, 2018. “Aming minadali ang paglalabas sa nasabing pera na […]
(Eagle News) – Funds from the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, or 4Ps, meant to benefit the country’s poor, have been discovered in a camp of the communist rebel group, the New People’s Army (NPA). President Rodrigo Duterte himself bared this in a speech on Tuesday, when he said that the Pantawid Pamilya funds, still inside the envelopes, were found inside one NPA camp. “They recovered from an NPA camp envelopes containing the Pantawid,” Duterte […]
https://youtu.be/peFMsNDqgI4 QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – Nasa blue alert na ngayon ang Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) kasunod na rin ng paglakas ng bagyong Gorio na nagpalakas naman sa habagat at nagdulot ng malakas na pag-ulan sa Luzon at Visayas. Dahil dito, pinaigting na ng kagawaran ang kanilang mga paghahanda sa posibleng epekto ng bagyo sa pamamagitan ng pre-positioning ng mga relief good. Kabilang sa mga inihanda ng DSWD ang mahigit 400,000 family […]
URDANETA CITY, Pangasinan (Eagle News) – Tinatayang nasa 80 katao ang nakinabang sa ipinamahaging 40 libreng food cart ng Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Ang pamamahagi ay isinagawa noong Miyerkules ng umaga, March 22 sa harapan ng City Hall ng Urdaneta City, Pangasinan. Ang mga nabigyan ng nasabing food cart ay nagmula sa 34 barangay ng nasabing lungsod na miyembro ng 4P’s. Bawat isang food cart ay nagkakahalaga ng 30,000 pesos kasama na ang […]
(Eagle News) — Nagpahayag ng pagkabahala ang mga parent leader at mga miyembro ng Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) o Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) sa balak ni incoming President Rodrigo Duterte na ibigay sa Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) ang posisyon sa Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) at Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). Anila, kontra ang mga miyembro ng CPP sa pagpapatuloy ng CCT program dahil […]
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Saturday said that there is no truth to the apprehensions of some leftist groups that it will hide the homeless families during the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) next month. DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman said that, in partnership with local government units, the DSWD continues to reach out to homeless families as part of efforts to protect them from harm and abuse which are rampant on […]
The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps of the Department of Social Welfare and Development succeeded in producing 4,000 high school graduates.
