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BY GLENN VIDAL BEUP
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Tuesday, May 9, 2017
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ROXAS City – A total of 6,031 households in this city will get P5,000 each under the Presidential Financial Assistance for Typhoon Yolanda in June.
The City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) validated the recipients on March 20, the office head Cynthia Besana told this reporter.
“The assistance will not be given to the individual beneficiaries but on a per-household basis, regardless of the number of persons living in the house,” Besana said.
A person living alone may also constitute a household, as provided under President Rodrigo Duterte’s Memorandum Circular No. 3 series of 2017, she clarified.
For a household to qualify for the financial aid, its house must have been damaged by super typhoon “Yolanda” in 2008, without distinction as to the extent of damage or ownership of the lot where the house was built.
The household that requested assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DWSD) on or before Nov. 8, 2016 must have been included in one of the lists submitted to the department by peoples’ or nongovernment organizations.
“Yolanda” struck the Philippines on Nov. 8, 2013, leaving thousands of people dead or homeless, and billions of pesos worth of properties, livelihood and infrastructures damaged or destroyed.
The Presidential Financial Assistance was created to address the appeal of typhoon victims during President Rodrigo Duterte’s visit to Roxas City and Capiz in November last year.
Thousands of survivors have not received their share from the government’s Emergency Shelter Assistance (ESA) and hundreds were disqualified based on the guidelines under Memorandum Circular No. 24 series of 2014.
Many other also missed donations from the private sector.
In Roxas City, households of 11,940 “totally damaged” houses and 8,500 “partially damaged” houses have received their ESA share, while 740 were disqualified, CSWDO records showed.
Under Memorandum Circular No. 3 series of 2017, those who were disqualified from ESA may avail themselves of the new aid provided that they have not received core shelters from the DSWD, permanent housing from the National Housing Authority, or any other shelter or housing grant from the government./PN
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