ILOILO – A total of 1,452,208 families in Western Visayas (WV) were able to receive emergency cash assistance from the government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP), data from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) showed.
Each received P6,000.
According to DSWD Region 6, 1,130,461 of these families were not beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). The paid-out amount to them reached P6,782,766,000.
As to 4Ps families, 321,747 each received P4,650 as top-up to their P750 health subsidy and P600 rice subsidy.
A total of P1,496,123,550 was allotted to 4Ps beneficiaries that were automatically covered by SAP, said DSWD-6 director Evelyn Macapobre.
She urged local government units (LGUs) to hasten the submission of their liquidation reports so that DSWD-6 could start validating their list of beneficiaries.
Macapobre said DSWD would take back the emergency cash assistance given to families found to be not qualified for the SAP.
As of June 1, 94 out of 133 LGUs in the region were able to submit liquidation reports.
Macapobre also announced that President Rodrigo Duterte already approved the release of SAP cash assistance to some five million low-income families left out of the first tranche of the emergency cash assistance./PN
