We have witnessed on television about some Filipinos having graduated from college through DSWD 4P's. This is a very good program from the department as it helps our fellow Filipino to have a chance to better education.
To be eligible for cash grants, poor and near-poor or families must be willing to comply with the conditions and meet any of the following criteria:
Farmers, fisherfolks, homeless families, indigenous peoples, informal settlers and those in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas are automatically included in the standard targeting system in the DSWD but will still have to meet the criteria to be eligible for cash grants.
The 4P's already covered 4 Million Households all over the country within 41,000 Barangays.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development has started its validation process to register new beneficiaries under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) to replace the more than 700,000 households that exited from the Program in 2022. Potential beneficiaries will only come from the list of poor households in the Listahanan 3.
It can be recalled that in 2019, the DSWD issued a Memorandum Circular to establish the 4Ps’ replacement process to sustain the target of 4.4 million households registered even with the continuous graduation and exit of beneficiaries, as this is the ceiling of budget allocations indicated in the General Appropriations Act.
Within the framework of a national poverty alleviation strategy and a holistic social protection program, the various agencies of government implementing multi-stakeholder programs and services for the poor shall guarantee that the same complement and converge seamlessly with the aim of ensuring that the targeted household-beneficiaries are alleviated from poverty and remain non-poor even after the prescribed maximum period for the conditional cash grant.
To apply for the Program, kindly visit the official DSWD Website, HERE!
