A senior official of the Department of Social Welfare and Development on Thursday confirmed that some 761,150 households will be retained in the list of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiaries.

DSWD Undersecretary for Innovations Edu Punay explained that the list of households is the result of the reassessment of beneficiaries in line with the directive of Department Secretary Rex Gatchalian.

"That means, they will not graduate; they will continue to benefit from the program. Because of the assessment, our department saw that they still need assistance under the 4Ps program," Punay pointed out, citing the Covid-19 pandemic's lingering impact on the households.

The over 760,000 households were part of the 1.1 million households earlier assessed as non-poor under the Listahanan 3 of the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction.

Of the 1.1 million 4Ps members, 339,660 households were assessed as Level 3 or self-sufficient, which are recommended for graduation or exit from the program.

"What we do here with our graduations, they are endorsed to local government units and we also provide them with various assistance or programs such as the Sustainable Livelihood Program to still help them as they exit from the 4Ps program," Punay said.

The 4Ps is the national poverty reduction and human capital investment program of the government that provides conditional cash transfer to qualified household-beneficiaries.

The program provides social protection, social assistance, social development and other complementary support services in partnership with concerned agencies, local government units and other stakeholders toward improving the health and nutrition, education and socio-economic aspects of the lives of the beneficiaries.