Only 6 of 48 Bohol towns

city, get SAP funds as yet

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, April 17, (PIA)—If, by now, you still have to get your share of the P6,000 Social Amelioration Program (SAP) funds of the government’s Emergency Subsidy Program as imbedded in the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act, that is so because the Department of Social Welfare and Development has downloaded funds to only 8 percent of Bohol’s 47 towns and a city.

This is according to DSWD Bohol Social Welfare and Development (SWAD) Team Administrative Assistant Marlon Banico, recently.

These towns, according to him are Ubay, Carmen, Tubigon, Clarin, Balilihan and San Isidro.

For the rest, the DSWD assures that as long as the proper documents are submitted and cleared, they would readily download the funds so towns can start distributing the assistance to the province’s poor and low income families.

The six towns are among the first who submitted complete documents which the DSWD needs to start the funds download, Banico explained.

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) a part of the SAP TWG has asked the LGUs to immediately submit the necessary documentary requirements by April 3, so the assistance can get to the families in the soonest time possible.

Some towns however could not beat the April 3 deadline, while there were some which submitted but with incomplete documents, towns battle with how to do about the important SAP forms which must be saturated to all in the barangays.

The DSWD in Bohol also said there were documents with some errors, or lack some requirements that they were left out in the first batch of documents which SWAD Bohol endorsed to the DSWD Regional Field Office.

In a separate interview, Bohol SWAD Team Leader Rhea Marie Tubongbanua, bared the four important documents which the DSWD would need to get the funds flowing to the LGUs’ accounts.

She said LGUs must submit a signed Memorandum of Agreement which indicates the town’s avail-ment of the SAP, a Sangguniang Bayan resolution allowing the mayor to sign the MOA, a project proposal for the SAP and the accomplished SAP forms.

These four documents need to be submitted to the DSWD SWAD Office in Tagbilaran before this goest to the DSWD Regional Field Office.

Banico also said, as per process, as soon as the DSWD reviews the documents and finds everything in order, within 24 hours, the regional office is mandated to download the requested SAP funds to the LGUs.

He also said as soon as the town receives the funds, they have to distribute the assistance to the poor and low income families within five days.

Fifteen days later, the towns are obliged to submit their liquidation papers to the DSWD. (rahchiu/PIA-7/Bohol)

FAILING TO BEAT THE DEADLINES. Several of Bohol towns have failed to meet the deadlines set by the DSWD in submitting the documents for the SAP, but the DSWD has said a new set of downloads for towns who have complied with the requirements could happen anytime this week. (rahchiu/PIA-7/Bohol)