MORE 30,000 household beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Northern Mindanao will finally be able to receive the over-the-counter payouts of cash grants this April after a month-long delay.
The 4Ps household beneficiaries will be able to acquire the payouts, through Land Bank of the Philippines, on April 17 to 27, Oliver Inodeo, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Northern Mindanao information officer, said.
The delay of payout release last March, Inodeo said, was caused by the synchronization of the payouts and the unconditional cash transfer.
The unconditional cash transfer, according to the information officer, is a way of the National Government to allay the “economic shock brought by the implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion.”
The beneficiaries of the unconditional cash transfer will be receiving P200 each every month, starting January to December this year, Inodeo said.
He added that by 2019, the beneficiaries of 4Ps and unconditional cash transfer will be given P300 every month.
Aside from the cash grant, Inodeo said the 4Ps beneficiaries will also receive a P600 rice subsidy for two months (P1,200) “if they complied at least one of the conditionality.”
“We have three major conditionality of the program: (1) yung lahat ng sakop ng Pantawid Pamilya magkakaron ng regular check up sa health center; (2) dapat yung ama or ina dapat mag aattend ng family development session at tsaka yung pangatlo, (3) dapat at least 85 percent ng full attendance in a month makuha ng mga monitored children or mga 4Ps grantees na mga kabataan (all the members under 4Ps will undergo regular check up in the health center; the father or the mother of the family should attend the family development session; and the monitored children should have at least 85 percent full attendance),” Inodeo said.
According to the government’s Official Gazette, 4Ps is a human development measure of the National Government that provides conditional cash grants to the poorest of the poor, to improve the health, nutrition, and the education of children aged 0 to 18.