LEGAZPI CITY, Aug 28 (PIA) – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has completed the special validation of indigent senior citizens and families under the Social Pension and Modified Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Families in need of Special Protection (MCCT-FNSP) program.
“The purpose of the special validation is to verify the poverty status of the social pensioners who are not registered in the database. Likewise, MCCT beneficiaries will be upgraded to the regular Pantawid Pamilya,“ DSWD Bicol regional director Arnel Garcia said.
Those who will be classified as poor under Social Pension will continue their monthly stipend while MCCT beneficiaries will be guaranteed advancement to the regular Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
Garcia added that some 10,643 social pensioners and 472 MCCT beneficiaries all over the region were validated through house to house interviews.
The DSWD uses the Proxy Means Test (PMT) to classify whether the beneficiaries are poor or not.
Joy Belen III, DSWD Bicol field coordinator, disclosed that some areas would take one whole day for the staff to reach and that most of the target beneficiaries were scattered in different locations.
“The distance and weather concerns have caused delay to the enumeration,” Belen said.
The social pension program of the DSWD provides P500 monthly stipend to indigent senior citizens as mandated by RA 9994 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010.
The priority beneficiaries of the Social Pension are senior citizens 77 years old and above who are frail, sickly and disabled, without a regular source of income and/or support from any member of the family, and not receiving other pension benefits from government and private agencies.
On the other hand, the MCCT-FNSP aims to increase the reach of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to help families that are in difficult situations and be able to mainstream them into the regular CCT program or 4Ps.
The target beneficiaries of this program are families in pockets of poverty not covered by the regular CCT such as those families who spend majority of their time on the street because it is where they earn their living.(AAN/SAA-PIA5/Albay)
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“The purpose of the special validation is to verify the poverty status of the social pensioners who are not registered in the database. Likewise, MCCT beneficiaries will be upgraded to the regular Pantawid Pamilya,“ DSWD Bicol regional director Arnel Garcia said.
Those who will be classified as poor under Social Pension will continue their monthly stipend while MCCT beneficiaries will be guaranteed advancement to the regular Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
Garcia added that some 10,643 social pensioners and 472 MCCT beneficiaries all over the region were validated through house to house interviews.
The DSWD uses the Proxy Means Test (PMT) to classify whether the beneficiaries are poor or not.
Joy Belen III, DSWD Bicol field coordinator, disclosed that some areas would take one whole day for the staff to reach and that most of the target beneficiaries were scattered in different locations.
“The distance and weather concerns have caused delay to the enumeration,” Belen said.
The social pension program of the DSWD provides P500 monthly stipend to indigent senior citizens as mandated by RA 9994 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010.
The priority beneficiaries of the Social Pension are senior citizens 77 years old and above who are frail, sickly and disabled, without a regular source of income and/or support from any member of the family, and not receiving other pension benefits from government and private agencies.
On the other hand, the MCCT-FNSP aims to increase the reach of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to help families that are in difficult situations and be able to mainstream them into the regular CCT program or 4Ps.
The target beneficiaries of this program are families in pockets of poverty not covered by the regular CCT such as those families who spend majority of their time on the street because it is where they earn their living.(AAN/SAA-PIA5/Albay)
- See more at: http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=2571409216234#sthash.uiqDjRcP.dpuf
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