DSWD to fill 17K new

4Ps beneficiaries here

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol Feb 17 (PIA)—The validation for the 17,000 households who would be the next beneficiaries of the 7-year Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) started this week as the government readies the replacement of those household beneficiaries who have graduated or have been delisted from the 77,510 households who were identified beneficiaries in Bohol in the 2010 list.

From the 77,510 beneficiaries in 2010, the government has already scrapped the 15,166 beneficiaries for some good and not so good reasons.

For the good reasons, about 505 households have been found by validation teams to be self-sufficient enough after a decade of help.

Another 158 households have already acquired regular income to afford them buying power after getting help from the program and still another 510 household beneficiaries have graciously waived their rights to allow other needy households to get into the government’s flagship poverty reduction program reported Department of Social Welfare and Development 4Ps Cluster 2 supervisor Ma. Charo Poligrates

Moreover, she said the DSWD found that 4,808 households have shown disinterest in the program for not updating their 4Ps membership, possibly not anymore keen on the help, that they were delisted.

Also, another 181 household beneficiaries have been disqualified from the program after years as the family has already graduates who can potentially find work while another household beneficiary in Bohol as delisted for misbehavior.

As the 4Ps comes with conditionalities that beneficiaries have to abide by, another 30 households were also scrapped from the list for persistent non-compliance, she added.

While the DSWD is still continuing to clean up the list of beneficiaries from the 2010 list, and while families are graduating from the program after their kids have finished school, the DSWD in Bohol sees some 17,299 new beneficiaries that they are getting from the posted list of potential beneficiaries which people can check in their barangays.

Those in the list are still potential beneficiaries, and some of them may not be included in this year’s considering that the prioritization goes to the household which is in more serious need of intervention, according to the DSWD.

To get to the final list, the DSWD is conducting validation through general assemblies which would be dome in coordination with the local government units, and an onsite validation by the DSWD validating team.

This list would also be given to the municipal validation team, so as to make sure that the help gets to where it is needed the most.

For this, the flagship government poverty reduction program sought to improve the health, education and nutrition of the country’s human investments has asked those in the list to attend the general assemblies and bring with them proofs of their identity, to advance their chances into getting educational, health and social assistance through the government’s cash grants.

As the cash grant gives a household a chance to get P700 for a student in the senior high, P500 for a student in junior high and P300 for a pupil in the elementary and preschool, the household leader has to present to the validation team at the assembly his marriage certificate or barangay certification attesting to his cohabitation and his family, birth certificates of kids, school certificates of enrollment for the kids covered by the program and barangay health certificate.

Aside from the educational grant, 4Ps beneficiaries can get P750 for complete attendance to the Family Development Sessions and another P600 for rice subsidy.

These cash grants however could only be claimed after the beneficiaries comply with the conditions of the cash grant.

The 4Ps conditions include regular prenatal and post natal check-ups for pregnant and birthing mothers, regular health services availment and check-up for 0-5 year old in the household, deworming for 1-14 years old members of the household, attendance to early child care and development in care centers, attendance of 85% of classes including the 85% attendance of kids in the 5-18 years in school classes plus regular attendance to the FDS. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)

VALIDATION OF THE LISTAHANANS SHORTLIST. DSWD has started its validation of replacement beneficiaries of the 4Ps who have been out of the list for good or bad reasons, in Tagbilaran City. Some 17,299 new Boholano household beneficiaries can potentially get into the new list of beneficiaries but the DSWD explained, the priority are those identified in the 2010 Listahanan and those really in need. (PIABohol)

Missed your 4Ps validation

schedule? Visit your DSWD

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Feb 18 (PIA) –Seen your name on the potential list of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries posted in your barangays, but missed the validation and general assembly schedules?

Well, you have not totally messed up your household’s chance to get the cash grants allocated for those who still subsist below the poverty threshold, for the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) may have one more schedule to come before April.

And even if you missed that too, visit the DSWD office of the Municipal Links, bring your important documents so these can be validated and your chances of getting in the list of new beneficiaries improves.

However, DSWD’s 4Ps cluster 2 supervisor Ma. Charo Poligrates explained that the posted list only includes those who have been listed in 2010 but could not make it to the list of beneficiaries then.

In 2010, the government ran a survey using the National Household Targeting System as a tool to determine the households that could qualify for the government assistance.

Of that list, which later became Listahanan, the government’s 4Ps picked the beneficiaries.

Those who could not make to that list of beneficiaries who were granted assistance from 2010 onwards are the priorities of this year’s list, Poligrates clarified.

“No, they can not apply, there is no application, all we are validating are those in the posted list, to make sure they still can comply with the requirements for the cash grant,” Poligrates said.

Those in the cash grant have to be households with pregnant or lactating mothers, with kids from 0-18 and in school, and those who could attend the regular Family Development Sessions (FDS).

With the government allocating the cash grants for 17,510 households in 2010 and with some 17,000 households getting delisted, the races is on for every poor household to get prioritized into the few slots available as replacement.

First, they have to see their names on the list, and then wait for the validation and general assembly so the new potential beneficiaries can present the proper documents and improve their chances, DSWD instructed. Cash grant can also transfer with them.

For beneficiaries who have moved and resettled to other places, all they need to do is check on the list in their previous barangay residences and then to go to the DSWD office of their new place to update their active membership, so the

Some 4PS clusters are putting up two rounds of validation and general assemblies, or for the one in the list who missed these validation sessions, they can visit the DSWD municipal link office to get validated.

During validation, and in support to the terms of the cash grants, potential beneficiaries need to bring in an identification for the member, marriage certificate or barangay certification for unmarried couples, birth certificates of the kids from 0-18, school certificate for kids in school and a barangay health certificate attesting to the members regular health services avail-ment.

After the DSWD validation, the list of potential beneficiaries is passed to the municipal team for the final validation before these new 4Ps members can get their cash grants and be in the government’s assistance program. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)

LISTAHANAN VALIDATION. Those missed out in the 2010 beneficiaries but in the Listahanan are prioritized for this replacement activity, and as the validation is important in one’s getting into the new list, DSWD 4Ps Cluster supervisor Ma. Charo Poligrates advises listed members to visit the DSWD for validation. (PIABOhol)