DSWD to extend coverage of CCT program

MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will start issuing “extended” cash grants to family beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program (4Ps) to cover those whose children are in high school.

DSWD regional offices all over the country are validating eligible children-beneficiaries for the Expanded Age Coverage of the Pantawid Pamilya program to cover 15- to 18-year-old children of registered households starting June 2014.

The expansion of the program will allow children-beneficiaries to graduate from high school under the K-12 program of the Department of Education and eventually have better opportunities than those who only finished elementary.

In Metro Manila, the DSWD-National Capital Region (NCR) has field workers or validators checking the family beneficiaries for children who can be covered by the Expanded Age Coverage of the 4Ps program.

Ma. Alicia Bonoan, DSWD-NCR regional director, said the field office is now undertaking preparatory activities regarding the upcoming validation of potential beneficiaries to reach the target of 90,404 children in Metro Manila.

Bonoan said beneficiaries under the Modified Conditional Cash Transfer for Homeless Street Families (MCCT-HSF) would also be included in the validation.