ILOILO City – Some 926 left out family-beneficiaries from the municipalities of Hamtic and Tobias Fornier in Antique have received their special amelioration program (SAP) cash assistance.
Mary Ann Masculino, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Western Visayas designated SAP coordinator, said that as of July 9, the household on the clean list of beneficiaries from the two towns have claimed their cash aid of P6,000 each.
“We piloted the SAP left out in the towns of Hamtic and Tobias Fornier because these local government units (LGUs) were the first ones to finish encoding the names of their additional beneficiaries,” she said.
Tobias Fornier had 439 additional beneficiaries but 46 were found to be ineligible to receive the cash aid.
Those ineligible were delisted due to duplication or a member of their family is working as a seafarer.
In Hamtic town, on the other hand, only 533 of the 536 additional beneficiaries were found eligible to claim the assistance. Two of those found disqualified are members of the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program, while one is due to duplication.
Duplication means that a member of the same family has already received a subsidy during the first tranche.
The remaining left out beneficiaries are expected to receive their cash aid anytime this July, Masculino added.
The beneficiaries – also displaced by coronavirus disease 2019 – were excluded during the release of the first tranche of SAP in April.
“As of now, the DSWD is still working out with the financial business provider that would be the department’s conduit in releasing the assistance,” Masculino said.
The financial business provider may be a bank where the money will be downloaded. It will also take charge of the releasing of cash aid to the beneficiaries.
The provision of emergency subsidy to the SAP left out beneficiaries is mandated under Memorandum Circular Number 14, series 2020 issued by DSWD Secretary Rolando Joselito Bautista last June 1. (With a report from PNA/PN)
