MORE than 400,000 waitlisted households are now new beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rexlon Gatchalian said on Sunday.
Gatchalian said the 434,317 households would be next in line to replace the beneficiaries who have graduated from the program.
DSWD Assistant Secretary Irene Dumlao, the agency’s spokesman, said 1,184,768 potential households were up for validation to determine if they passed the 4Ps’ criteria.
The DSWD officials said identified poor and near poor households or families must be willing to comply with the conditions and must have a family member under 18 years old or with a pregnant family member at the time of registration.
In July last year, Gatchalian ordered the reassessment of the 4Ps beneficiaries who were tagged as “non-poor.” The reassessment resulted in the reinstatement of more than 700,000 4Ps beneficiaries, Dumlao said.
The program has been facilitating the graduation of households who no longer have eligible children for education grants or those enrolled in elementary, high school and senior high school, she said.
Launched in 2008 and institutionalized by Republic Act 11310 (4Ps Act) in 2019, the 4Ps is the national poverty reduction and human capital investment program that provides conditional cash transfer to poor households for a maximum of seven years to improve their children’s health, nutrition, and education.
Each household receives P750 per month for health, P300 per child in elementary, P500 per child in junior high school, and P700 per child in senior high school for education, with a maximum of three children per household for 10 months a school year.
There is also a monthly rice subsidy of P600.
The DSWD said more than 4 million households nationwide were registered 4Ps beneficiaries.
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