The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) last Saturday officially rolled out in this vote-rich province its anti-Epal campaign which aimed to dissuade candidates from using the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program during campaign period.
Agriculture industry leaders have asked Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman to include small landholding farmers in the agency’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program amid the decline in farm incomes because of low prices of local rice.
ROSALES, Pangasinan—The government’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, also known as the Pantawid Pampamilyang Pilipino program, should also serve farmers who have been marginalized by rice smuggling, a party-list group said here. “If the government could not stop smuggling, then it should do something to help the farmers who are struggling to produce the [...]
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has announced a drive to dissociate the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, also known as the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), from politics during the campaign period.
Malacañang on Monday defended the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) from criticism that it was allotting P10.5 million for its campaign against “epal’’ or credit grabbers.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has liquidated P3.5 billion of the P3.77 billion reported by the Commission on Audit (COA) as unliquidated cash grants that were distributed in 2011 to beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program for the poor, or the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
In spite of its successes, the government’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program is not the solution to rising hunger in the country, according to a nongovernmental organization.
The controversy and interest over the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the government appears to be the waning, at least in the House of Representatives.
The P44.25-billion proposed budget for the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program in 2013 would allow the Department of Social Welfare and Development to add some 800,000 beneficiaries to the CCT and help as well other poverty-reduction programs of the government, said Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman.
Senators have warned the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program will be subjected to even more intensive questioning after the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) presented during budget deliberations what the senators believe to be a very limited survey on the program’s effectivity.
For years, Maribel Baccay, a mother of six, had to wake up very early to scour her rural neighborhood in Paracelis, Mt. Province, looking for bits of scrap that she could sell to augment the meager pay that her husband brought in.
The Supreme Court has sustained the constitutionality of the Aquino administration’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program, saying the government did not encroach on the autonomy of local governments when it implemented the antipoverty program.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is amenable to cutting down the administrative costs of implementing the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, which is proposed to be budgeted at P44.5 billion in 2013.
