Second tranche of cash aid for poor families eyed by end-May: DSWD

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Second tranche of cash aid for poor families eyed by end-May: DSWD COVID19Quarantine

Watch also in iWant or TFC.tv MANILA - The Department of Social Welfare and Development aims to deliver the second tranche of cash aid to poor families by end of May, its spokesperson said Tuesday.

The distribution can already begin as government will employ electronic means for the subsidy system, Malacañang said Monday. The DSWD is validating the list of beneficiaries as it awaits guidelines from government's technical working group on social amelioration program, its spokesperson Irene Dumlao said.

"Kinakailangan may judicious spending of our resources para may ma-cover tayong iba," she told ABS-CBN's Teleradyo.The second round of subsidies will include 5 million more poor families and 12 million others who benefited from the first tranche, Malacañang said. Beneficiaries will receive cash aid ranging between P5,000 and P8,000 based on minimum wage rates in the region.

 

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My wife and me are poor due to covid19 and Taal volcano eruption. Since we get NO HELP from any government at all. When will we get help?

With the way things have played out for the first tranche of cash aid, end of May is very much unlikely. Realistically, start of distribution is end of June. That is, 2020.

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