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Published July 5, 2021, 1:05 PM
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Monday, July 5, that around 500 families or 2,000 individuals are currently staying in 16 evacuation centers in four municipalities in Batangas.
Residents in Laurel, Batangas take temporary shelter at Barangay Ticub Elementary School on July 1, 2021 after a short-lived phreatomagmatic eruption occurs at Taal Volcano’s main crater. (Photo by ALI VICOY)
DSWD Undersecretary Felicisimo Budiongan said the Taal Volcano’s unrest has so far affected 1,200 families or 4,500 individuals in Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon).
DSWD Undersecretary Felicisimo Budiongan: 1,200 families or 4,500 individuals in Calabarzon have been affected by Taal Volcano’s unrest. @manilabulletin charissa luci (@chailuci) July 5, 2021
Published April 12, 2021, 9:39 PM
Over 1 million low-income people affected by the imposition of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region (NCR)-plus have received their one-time financial assistance amounting to more than P1 billion, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Monday evening, April 12.
Citing the report from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) dated April 10, the DSWD said more than P1.1-billion supplemental aid for ECQ areas has been distributed during the April 7 to 9 payouts.
“Based on the April 10 report from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), covering the payouts from April 7 to 9, more than P1.1 billion has already been distributed to over 1 million beneficiaries from the National Capital Region, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal,” it said in a statement.