OVER P128 million have been disbursed to beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Leyte last year and another P7 million have been released for January-April 2011. This was the status which the Leyte 4Ps team reported to Regional Director Letecia C. Diokno of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
Leyte tallied 66,692 registered beneficiaries for the program. The DSWD reports over 8,000 beneficiaries who have been delisted from about 168,000 families identified under the program. The delisting of 8,000 families covered 2009, the year the program was implemented up to August this year.
Foremost reason for the delisting is that the beneficiaries do not anymore have children below 14 years old while others were stricken off the list for non-compliance of the requirements imposed by the program. Gov. Carlos Jericho L. Petilla has earlier urged the DSWD to revalidate its list of recipients after receiving complaints that some of the beneficiaries have steady source of income with regular jobs while others are even serving as barangay officials.
The conditions imposed on recipients include sending the children to school or visiting health centers. Qualified beneficiaries receive P500 a month or P6,000 a year for health and nutrition expenses, and P300 a month for 10 months or P3,000 for educational expenses.
Also in attendance during the meeting are Department of Education District Supervisor Sarah Apurillo and Philippine National Police Provincial Commander SSupt Pio Manito. (PMRC)
(WLWE issue of Sept. 5-11, 2011)
No comments:
Post a Comment