Sen. Alan Cayetano mulls a second type of Conditional Cash Transfer, a microfinancing variant that would allow the likes of tricycle drivers and vendors to loan small amounts from a P500 million fund to be given annually per region throughout the country.
Rosalina Caya-os, 44, a mother of five, had been certain she needed to learn livelihood skills long before she was listed as a beneficiary in the government’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program.
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 [...]
House minority leader Danilo Suarez wants beneficiaries of the government’s conditional cash transfer to receive the money ahead of the midterm elections to avoid corrupting the program.
House minority leader Danilo Suarez wants beneficiaries of the government’s conditional cash transfer to receive the money ahead of the midterm elections to avoid corrupting the program.
Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman on Monday vowed to beef up the department’s livelihood projects following the Social Weather Stations’ survey which pegged families who considered themselves poor to 10.9 million.
THREE non-government organizations (NGOs) in Cebu have signed an agreement with the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) for their children beneficiaries to be covered under the Modified Conditional Cash Transfer (MCCT) program.
Bayan Muna Partylist Representative Neri Colmenares on Thursday urged the Commission on Elections to bar candidates running for the elections next year from participating in activities for the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program.
House minority leader Danilo Suarez wants the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program suspended once politicians kick off their campaign for the 2013 midterm elections.
Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago said Tuesday the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program could be digitalized following observations that almost half of the budget for the program in 2013 will just go to overhead expenses, and not to its beneficiaries.
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).
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 Department of Social Welfare and Development handed Thursday P149,700 in cash grants to 152 initial beneficiaries of the Expanded Conditional Cash Transfer (ECCT) project for street families.
