4Ps Beneficiaries To Receive As Much As P2,400 UCT Cash Grant As Ordered By TRAIN

"Tax reforms have caused economic shocks among the ranks of the poor, and this was foreseen.... Knowing that the poor will be most affected, DSWD lost no time in putting together the implementing guidelines of the UCT (unconditional cash transfer) so that the cash grants can be provided as soon as possible," DSWD OIC Secretary Emmanuel Leyco said.

The UCT is a program of the DSWD to shield the poorest families from the effects of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (Train) Law.

Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries will receive as much as P2,400 from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) under a program seeking to offset the effects of the TRAIN law.

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On  March 5, some P4.3 billion was released to the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) for 1.8 million 4Ps beneficiaries with existing LBP cash cards.

"Tax reforms have caused economic shocks among the ranks of the poor, and this was foreseen.... Knowing that the poor will be most affected, DSWD lost no time in putting together the implementing guidelines of the UCT (unconditional cash transfer) so that the cash grants can be provided as soon as possible," DSWD OIC Secretary Emmanuel Leyco said.

The UCT is a program of the DSWD to shield the poorest families from the effects of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (Train) Law.

For 2018, each beneficiary will receive P200 per month. In 2019 and 2020, the subsidy will increase to P300 monthly.

The LBP released cash grants to almost 420,000 beneficiaries from Metro Manila, Ilocos Region, Cagayan Valley, and the Cordillera Administrative Region.
 The Landbank of the Philippines has set-up mobile ATM Machine in front of the Department of Social Welfare and Development office. DSWD said that instead of giving the P200/monthly, they decided to give the UCT to its beneficiaries for one year which amounts to P2400.

The UCT is on top of 4Ps beneficiaries' regular cash grant and P600 rice subsidy from the program.

This article is filed under: philippine programs, 4Ps, 4Ps benefits, poor families, poorest, programs for the poor, Support, cash grants, cash assistance, cash gift, 

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STANDARD OF LIVING IN THE PHILIPPINES GETTING BETTER ACCORDING TO SURVEY?

There are 9.4 million families in the Philippines who considered themselves poor and “food poor” in the past three months.

This is based on a nationwide survey conducted by Social Weather Station (SWS) last September 24-27 among 1,200 respondents.

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This means that four in 10 Filipino families consider themselves poor or "mahirap".

Base on the result, it is the new record low and the lowest self-rated poverty since April 1983 after the result shows that 42% of Filipino families rated themselves poor.

“Food-poor” means families consider the food they eat as poor.

Compared to last June 2016, there are 45% of Filipino families across the country who considered themselves poor or an equivalent of 10.5 million households.

Also pointed out that the self-rated poverty result “has been either steady or declining for eight consecutive quarters” as follows:

• 52 percent in December 2014

• 51 percent in March 2015 and June 2015

• 50 percent in September 2015 and December 2015

• 46 percent in April 2016

• 45 percent in June 2016, and

• 42 percent in September 2016.

According to SWS, there were fewer Filipino families saying that they are poor in the rest of Luzon from 41 percent to 34 percent and Mindanao with 54 percent to 49 percent.

However, in Metro Manila, self-rated poverty increases from 32 percent to 36 percent and the Visayas from 52 percent to 56 percent.

Residents in Metro Manila who consider themselves poor said that they would need at least P16,000 per month to be not included as "poor."

For the rest of Luzon, they said, they need P15,000 per month while P10,000 per month in Visayas and Mindanao.

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4Ps TO GET ADDITIONAL P650 AS RICE SUBSIDIES UNDER DIGONG ADMIN

4Ps TO GET ADDITIONAL P650 AS RICE SUBSIDIES UNDER DIGONG ADMIN

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Starting next year, 4.6 million beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) will receive additional cash equivalent to 20 kilos of rice monthly from National Food Authority (NFA).

This is one of the promises of President Rodrigo Duterte in his State of the Nation Address last July.

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According to Hope Hervilla, assistant secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), this is a part of an improved Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program of Duterte Administration.

The first proposal was 20 kilos of rice per month per family but Senate President Pro-Tempore Franklin Drilon push for the provision of cash subsidies instead of rice supply to the beneficiaries of 4Ps, due to "terrible" system of distributing heavy pack of rice to families.

In line with this, DSWD Secretary Judly Taguiwalo agrees to Drilon's proposal.

The budget for the 20 kilograms of rice per month, at P32.50 per kilo based on the National Food Authority retail price, would approximately translate to an increase of P650 in the monthly stipend of the 4Ps beneficiaries. 

The government has allotted P23.4 billion budget for the rice subsidy program next year.

The 4Ps program was first introduced in Abra province in 2009 by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and was continued by former President Benigno Aquino III.

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CASH GRANTS

The 4Ps has two types of cash grants that are given out to household-beneficiaries:

• health grant: P500 per household every month, or a total of P6,000 every year

• education grant: P300 per child every month for ten months, or a total of P3,000 every year (a household may register a maximum of three children for the program)

For a household with three children, a household may receive P1,400 every month, or a total of P15,000 every year for five years, from the two types of cash grants given to them.

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CONDITIONS AND COMPLIANCE

In order to receive the abovementioned subsidies, all the succeeding conditions must be met by the household-beneficiaries:

• Pregnant women must avail pre- and post-natal care, and be attended during childbirth by a trained professional;

• Parents or guardians must attend the family development sessions, which include topics on responsible parenting, health, and nutrition;

• Children aged 0-5 must receive regular preventive health check-ups and vaccines;

• Children aged 6-14 must receive deworming pills twice a year; and

• Children-beneficiaries aged 3-18 must enroll in school, and maintain an attendance of at least 85% of class days every month.

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At least 1.3 million families who will be removed from the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) next year will still be included to its rice subsidy program.

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