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Duterte to DSWD: Farm out remaining P10 billion to the poor
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte directed the Department of Social Welfare and Development to use the remaining P10 billion under the COVID-19 emergency cash assistance program to aid more poor households and vulnerable sectors. “Dahil ‘yan po ay naibigay na ng Kongreso, kung pupuwede nga po ay ibigay pa po ‘yan doon sa mga pamilya na hindi…
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13 million families already got SAP 2 cash aid — DSWD
By John Clifford Lintao CLOSE to 13 million families have so far received cash assistance covered under the long overdue second tranche of the government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP). As of this posting, the Department of Social Welfare and Development claims to have disbursed to 12,930,324 someP77.4 billion even as they hinted at continuing distribution…
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DILG confident SAP distribution done next week
By John Clifford Lintao THE Department of Interior and Local Government, with all certainty, hinted at completing the digital distribution of the Social Amelioration Program’s second tranche in Metro Manila by next week. Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said that as of August 7, 2020, the SAP’s second tranche (SPA 2) has so far been disbursed…
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DSWD: P63.2B of SAP 2nd tranche already distributed
By Fernan Angeles THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) seemed to be taking more time in the distribution of the government cash subsidy supposedly intended to help alleviate the hardships of local folks for the month of May. To this date, the DSWD has only been able to distribute around P63.2 billion under…