Social Welfare and Development Secretary Erwin Tulfo has given assurance that the poorest families now receiving conditional cash grants as beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program would not be taken out of the program, even as he announced that the department is undergoing a thorough evaluation and cleansing of the 4Ps roll of beneficiaries.
(File photo) MANILA -The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) announced on Monday that its "Listahanan 3" database has identified 5,599,091 poor households from the 15,487,655 assessed nationwide. "Listahanan 3" or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) is an information management system that establishes a database of poor households and will serve as basis in identifying potential beneficiaries for social protection programs and services. Its main objective is to formulate a unified criterion for the identification of poor households through scientific means. DSWD Secretary Erwin Tulfo said the agency will trim down the list within three months to accommodate 4.4 million in their poverty reduction program Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). "There will be a grand launching soon," he said during an online briefing. Earlier, it was reported that about 1.3 million will be delisted from the 4Ps list afte
For Mishael Sabirin and her son Kheezar, 11, no words are necessary to communicate with each other. The mother gives a reassuring touch to her son who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, while sitting down with an enumerator from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Kheezar immediately relaxes…
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Director Justin Batocabe of the DSWD-National Household Targeting Office said they are seeking to get hold of the final list of poor households by the end of second quarter.
“We hope to launch the complete and validated data by end of second quarter,” he said in a text message. “We target that we will have the complete list of poor households by June.”
The DSWD official also cited the possibility that their schedule to complete the validated list of poor households may be extended until first month of the third quarter or in July.
During congressional budget deliberations in September last year, DSWD Secretary Rolando Bautista relayed to the lawmakers that by 2021, the agency will have the final and complete list of poor households in the country.