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)
