How Much Do DSWD 4Ps Program Recipients Get As Cash Benefits?
Here are the cash benefits that the recipients of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 4Ps Program get.
In the Philippines, one of the biggest and the most popular anti-poverty programs is the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or more popularly called the 4Ps Program. Under the law, it is the Republic Act No. 11310 which was signed in 2019.
Under this conditional cash transfer program, the Philippine government mandates parent recipients that their children must be getting preschool, primary, and secondary school education. The program which is spearheaded by the Department of Social Welfare and Development, more popularly called DSWD, provides cash benefits under 4Ps.
Here are the DSWD cash benefits for the recipients of the anti-poverty program:
- Educational Assistance Grant for up to 10 months per year
- childcare and pre-school children – Php 300 per child per month
- junior high school – Php 500 per student per month
- senior high school – Php 700 per student per month
- Monthly Health Grant — Php 750
- Rice Allowance — Php 600 per month
- Automatic PhilHealth Insurance
- Priority under the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) of DSWD
The DSWD is strict in assessing the status of the recipients as well as the yearly applicants for the 4Ps program. It has clearly stated qualifications under the conditional cash transfer program
The 4Ps Program of the Philippine government benefits around 20 million Filipinos. The said program led by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) extends assistance to over 4 million households.
4Ps operates in all 17 regions in the Philippines. It covers qualified poor families in 79 provinces, 143 cities, and 1,484 municipalities in the country in its pursuit to help the Filipinos free from bondage to poverty that has long chained a lot of families in a series of generations.
The authorities do a re-checking or re-evaluation of the 4Ps recipients from time-to-time. Those who are no longer qualified in the program are removed and the slots are given to Filipino families who belong to the poverty level but have not availed the program.