BAGUIO CITY, Aug. 14 (PIA) - - The Department of Social Welfare and Development is working double time to complete the direct payout of the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) second tranche financial subsidy to all qualified family beneficiaries in Baguio City and Benguet.
DSWD – Cordillera Regional Director Leo Quintilla, in a PIA- led Kapihan media forum Tuesday (Aug. 11), reported that they have already reached 84 percent accomplishments for the direct payout for second tranche SAP target beneficiaries, and hopes to completeit within the week. Most of those that are yet to be reached are from areas that are on lockdown due COVID – 19 cases.
For the waitlisted SAP beneficiaries, direct payout by DSWD – CAR already reached 97 percent accomplishment, he added.
Based on DSWD – CAR data, total target is 98,490 family beneficiaries for the SAP second tranche of which 69,311 receive their P5,500 cash subsidy through Financial Service Provider while 29, 196 thru direct payout.
For the Benguet municipalities of Atok, Bakun, Bokod, Kabayan, Kibungan and Sablan, the SAP financial distribution is through Direct payout of DSWD-CAR. For Baguio City and Benguet municipalities of Itogon, Kapangan, Mankayan, La Trinidad, Tuba, and Tublay, distribution of cash assistance is a mix of direct payout and through FSP.
Quintilla disclosed that 100 percent of the fund allocation thru FSP is already transferred to the contracted financial service providers and the beneficiaries are already being contacted and given instructions through the mobile phone numbers that they have registered.
Payout for several family beneficiaries in Baguio City, Mankayan and Kapangan is thru Paymaya, Star Pay for Buguias and Itogon beneficiaries and G Cash for La Trinidad, Tuba and Tublay.
With the COVID pandemic bringing in new normal, Quintilla said they are now working into how to incorporate the needed minimum health requirements and safety protocols to ensure the safety of their clients and the DSWD personnel and other local partners/stakeholders in the delivery of social welfare and development services to the people. (JDP/CCD-PIA CAR)
Source: Philippines Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)
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