The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VII urged inactive Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries to update their information data.
As of July 2022, the program has a total of 17,639 inactive 4Ps households who are no longer found at their declared address and did not process or file a request for transfer of residence; households that no longer have eligible members for education monitoring; and households whose exit was temporarily suspended during the state of health calamity period brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We are calling our 4Ps beneficiaries in case they still have 0-18 children to immediately approach their Pantawid Pamilya City and Municipal Links (C/MLs) so that their information data will be updated and will be properly assessed,” said DSWD-7 OIC-Regional Director Shalaine Marie Lucero.
Director Lucero underscored that it is part of the responsibility of the beneficiaries to provide updated information on their households and that this was set in the oath of commitment when they were enrolled in the program.
The inactive 4Ps beneficiaries likewise need to present the birth certificates of the children, their school enrollment certificates, and the health certificates for 0–5-year-old children.
4Ps households who fail to provide updates by July 25, 2022, will be automatically delisted from the program.
“This is part of our commitment to update and clean the list of the 4Ps beneficiaries, and we are currently strengthening our data management efforts to ensure that all “unqualified” and “ineligible” beneficiaries will be removed from the program,” said Director Lucero.
In an earlier statement, DSWD Secretary Erwin T. Tulfo provided direction to the 4Ps National Program Management Office (NPMO) to clean up its list of program beneficiaries by identifying the 4Ps families with children who have finished their studies and have no monitored eligible children, whom he emphasized are already considered ineligible to become program beneficiaries.
Based on the existing program guidelines, those who have graduated or exited from the program and were assessed as self-sufficient are being removed from the roster of active members, and they should no longer receive any cash grants.
Following the current implementation of the program, the list of beneficiaries is regularly updated in the Beneficiary Data and Management System to reflect active beneficiaries who are entitled to receive cash grants, subject to the monitoring and evaluation of their compliance with the conditions provided by the 4Ps Act or RA 11310.
In 2022, the DSWD Field Office VII has already delisted 374 households who have already improved their level of well-being and ten (10) households who are not compliant with the program conditionalities.
Currently, there are 306,281 household beneficiaries in the Central Visayas region.
The 4Ps is the government’s major poverty alleviation program that invests in the health, nutrition, and education of poor eligible households. These, along with psychosocial and educational components provided through the Family Development Sessions (FDS), lead the beneficiaries to have improved and sustained well-being.
The beneficiaries who complied with the program conditions during a particular period will receive their full grants. These conditions include sending and keeping school-aged children in school; pre and post-natal care of mothers; regular and preventive check-ups of children aged five and below; deworming of children aged six to 14, and attendance at the monthly FDS.
Based on the law, households may receive Php 750.00 for compliance with health and FDS; children monitored by the program in elementary will receive Php 300.00; those in junior high will receive Php 500.00; and Php 700.00 for children in senior high school. The education grants benefit a maximum of three children in a household and cover only 10 months per school year. ###
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