Labella wants remaining Lumad children under DSWD care

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/19/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgar Labella wants the remaining Lumad children to be taken under the custody of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).  Labella said that the DSWD would be best…

Mandaue flood victims receive cash, relief goods

Mary Rose Sagarino 12/29/2020

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines – The thousands of families affected by the floods last October 2020 here received their financial assistance from the city government on Tuesday, December 29, 2020. In barangay Paknaan alone, there were about 3,600…

Lapu-Lapu feeds its malnourished, stunted children

Futch Anthony Inso 11/14/2020

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines- Around 5,800 children, ages 4-5 years old in Lapu-Lapu City are benefitting from the supplemental feeding program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Annabeth Cuizon, head of the City Social Welfare…

Crowded shelters might cause COVID surge–DOH

Jovic Yee, Leila B. Salaverria - @inquirerdotnet 11/14/2020

The Department of Health (DOH) warned of a “very strong possibility” of local COVID-19 cases increasing further due to overcrowding in evacuation centers following the recent onslaught of Typhoon Ulysses (international name: Vamco). At a press briefing…

DSWD resumes validation for Listahan 3

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/19/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will resume the validation of poor households for the Listahan of the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) program, which is scheduled for…

DSWD misses target anew; only 14.1M households get cash aid

Patricia Denise M. Chiu 08/05/2020

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has again missed its end-July target for emergency cash subsidies for the poorest of the poor despite less beneficiaries and supposedly more experience from the distribution…

DSWD detects over 81,000 duplicate cash aid beneficiaries, 52,000 ineligible recipients

Krissy Aguilar - Reporter / @KAguilarINQ 07/17/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Over 81,000 individuals have received financial assistance from more than one government agency while more than 52,000 recipients were ineligible, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Friday. “Sa duplication natin, umabot…

Over 3,700 beneficiaries have returned cash aid due to duplication – DSWD

Gabriel Pabico Lalu - INQUIRER.net 06/09/2020

MANILA, Philippines – So far, 3,723 beneficiaries of cash aid under the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) have returned the money due to duplication of social aid provision, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said on…

DSWD to LGUs: Submit SAP reports to facilitate release of 2nd tranche of cash aid

Doris C. Bongcac 06/01/2020

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – The release of the second tranche of the government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP) will depend on how soon Local Government Units (LGUs) can submit their liquidation report on the first release of the…

DSWD needs LGU liquidation reports for quick release of 2nd tranche of aid

Gabriel Pabico Lalu - INQUIRER.net 05/27/2020

MANILA, Philippines – The immediate release of aid under the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) largely depends on the ability of the local government units to transmit their liquidation reports on the aid’s first tranche, according to the…

Gov’t to give cash aid to 5 million more families

Leila B. Salaverria - Philippine Daily Inquirer 05/24/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang has directed the government body leading the new coronavirus disease response to include five million households in the second tranche of the Social Amelioration Program, which provides cash assistance to low-income families to…

DSWD-7 asks Cebu City’s help in finishing SAP distribution

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/21/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — There are 117,126 families in Cebu City who successfully received their Special Amelioration Program (SAP) for the first wave of the distribution. Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) reported…

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