DSWD warns: 4Ps not for electioneering
The Department of Social Welfare and Development has reiterated on Friday that its Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program cannot be used for electioneering or any partisan political activities.
Daily TribuneThe Department of Social Welfare and Development has reiterated on Friday that its Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program cannot be used for electioneering or any partisan political activities.
DSWD Assistant Secretary Romel Lopez said that the public should be wary of those candidates which promises aid using the 4Ps because only the official list from the agency will be used for the provision of aid.
According to 4Ps National Program Management Office director Gemma Gabuya, the program only utilizes the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction or Listahanan to identify the profile of poor beneficiaries.
Gabuya, however, stressed that the inclusion to the Listahanan does not guarantee any provision of cash aid or automatic inclusion to the 4Ps since it is only a database that can be used to determine who and where the poor are.
Following the memorandum of DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian on 19 July to defer the exit of 4Ps beneficiaries who were tagged as non-poor, the 4Ps NPMO conducted a reassessment of 1,158, 249 non-poor 4Ps households using the Social Welfare and Development Indicators from July to September.