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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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Ombudsman suspends 89 barangay chiefs en masse
By Mar T. Supnad IN what appears to be the first since it was first established, the Office of the Ombudsman issued a mass suspension of barangay chairmen who were found to have been directly or indirectly involved in the anomalous distribution of emergency cash subsidies to their constituents. In receiving of copy of the…
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437 officials face criminal raps over SAP
By Fernan Angeles AT least 437 local elected and appointed public officials are facing criminal charges over the alleged anomalous payouts of the Social Amelioration Program (SAP). In a statement sent to media, the DILG also said that aside from the 437 government officials, 626 more are under investigation by the Criminal Investigation and Detection…
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49 barangay officials facing charges due to SAP
By Fernan Angeles The Department of Interior and Local Government said that 49 barangay officials have been slapped with complaints before the Office of the Ombudsman surrounding the national government’s Social Amelioration Program. Also charged were officials who have violated the community quarantine protocols. Some 20,000 complaints were filed to the DILG but only 49…
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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 deploying police at remittance centers
By Fernan Angeles FOLLOWING reports of crowding at money remittance centers to claim government cash assistance aptly referred to as the Social Amelioration Program, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) ordered the deployment of policemen at remittance centers for the distribution of the second tranche of the government aid . DILG spokesperson…
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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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New IATF guidelines to ensure SAP distribution
By John Clifford Lintao MEASURES are now in place to ensure the delivery of cash assistance to low-income households while Metro Manila and its nearby provinces are under a stricter lockdown, says the COVID-19 task force. The measures were approved on Thursday by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF)…
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DOF: No allocation for cash assistance
By Fernan Angeles MILLIONS of families in areas under strict lockdown should brace for the bad news – the government has not allocated funds for cash aid for those who will be affected by the two-week return of Metro Manila and its adjacent provinces to modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ). In a press briefing, Finance…