290,000 more households to benefit from 4Ps
MANILA, Philippines – At least 290,000 families will be added to the list of beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps this year, according to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
“Our target for 2016 is 4.6 million households,” Leonardo Reynoso, DSWD 4Ps national program manager, told The STAR on Monday.
Reynoso said the program has 4,400,022 beneficiaries as of December.
“We have a regular attrition in Pantawid. There are families that are delisted from the program when they no longer have children aged 0 to 18 years old,” he said.
Reynoso, however, said the additional beneficiaries would start receiving financial assistance after the elections.
The additional beneficiaries were identified through the 2015 Listahanan survey of poor families released by the DSWD last week. The nationwide survey covered 15 million households, of which 5.1 million or 28.7 million individuals were identified as the poorest.
At least 11.2 percent or 573,446 poorest households are in Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi, which comprise the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
The survey also showed that eight of 10 or 76.6 percent of the poor households are in rural areas.
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