The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is targeting additional 208,860 additional households in the National Capital Region as beneficiaries of government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program.

DSWD-NCR Regional Director, Ma. Alicia S. Bonoan said that community assemblies are now on-going in different cities/municipality in Metro Manila to register the potential beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. This is in addition to the 65,628 registered beneficiaries in NCR.

The potential beneficiaries were targeted based on the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) data of DSWD.

Bonoan added that community assemblies are being conducted in community facilities such as barangay halls, covered courts, elementary schools and churches located in the targeted barangays.

 

 

The community assembly is a venue for DSWD to validate and update the household information of potential beneficiaries and to register them with Landbank of the Philippines for the issuance of cash cards.
Beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilya get their cash grants through Landbank of the Philippines using their cash cards.

“The additional household beneficiaries is our contribution to the current administration’s thrust that ‘no one will be left behind’,” said Bonoan.

Pantawid Pamilya is the government’s poverty reduction program implemented by the DSWD which provides conditional cash grants to extremely poor households to improve the education, nutrition and health of children aged 0-14. It offers P6,000 a year or P500 per month for health and nutrition expenses and P3,000 for one school year (10 months) or P300 monthly per child for the educational expenses. A maximum of three children per household is covered in the program.