Residents from Arayat and Candaba towns in Pampanga who were affected by Super Typhoon Carina in July last year received cash aid from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Central Luzon.
They are part of the 62,000 families in the Region 3 to receive the Emergency Cash Transfer (ECT), amounting to a total of P348.75 million.
Under the ECT, each beneficiary is set to receive P5,625, which can be used to meet their basic needs such as food, drinking water, medicine, and others.
The ECT payouts began on Tuesday in the municipalities of Abucay in Bataan and in Arayat and Candaba in Pampanga.
The program is part of DSWD’s disaster response efforts and an adaptive strategy for bridging the gaps between immediate disaster relief, humanitarian response, and early recovery support through outright cash aid for disaster-affected families in areas under a state of calamity.
The DSWD said that strict security measures are in place at the payout sites, with support from the Provincial and Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Offices and the Philippine National Police.