DSWD to get new 4Ps beneficiaries after aid ends for 200k receipients

CASH AID Beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program wait for their turn to receive financial assistance. (File photo from Department of Social Welfare and Development Facebook page)

MANILA, Philippines — Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is set to add new beneficiaries to its ‘Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program’ (4Ps) in September.

DSWD on Thursday said this development will take place because about 200,000 current 4Ps beneficiaries will exit from the program on that month.

“By September, mayroong mga around 200,000 na wala ng eligible children na automatic na mag-e-exit sa program,” said Director Gemma Gabuya, head of 4Ps National Program Management Office of DSWD.

(By September, there will be around 200,000 household beneficiaries with non-eligible children who will automatically exit the program.)

The automatic removal of the beneficiaries is in line with the provisions of Republic Act No. 11310, or the 4Ps Law, Gabuya told reporters in a media forum.

The law states that “a qualified household beneficiary shall be deemed to exit from the program when the last monitored child in the household turns 19 years old.”

“To ensure that the exiting households will not slide back to poverty, DSWD is working with other government agencies and local government units to provide livelihood opportunities and other interventions that will help meet the needs of the families,” said Gabuya.

Incoming new 4Ps beneficiaries will come from the current list of waitlisted persons assessed by ‘Listahanan 3’ or the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction.