Over 13.93 million beneficiaries have received their second tranche of emergency cash subsidies under the government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP), the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Monday.
Citing its latest SAP monitoring report, the DSWD said as of Oct. 4, around 13,938,607 beneficiaries have received SAP 2 aid amounting to P83.3 billion.
“Batay sa datos kahapon, ika-4 ng Oktubre, umabot na sa higit P83.3 bilyon ang naipamahagi ng DSWD sa higit na 13.93 milyon na pamilyang benepisyaryo ng SAP,” it said in a Facebook post.
(Based on the data on Oct. 4, the DSWD has distributed more than P83.3 billion to more than 13.93 million family beneficiaries of SAP)
The number of the served beneficiaries is 98.7 percent of the 14,117,957 recipients targeted to receive the second tranche of subsidies.
“Patuloy ang pamamahagi ng emergency subsidy sa mga benepisyaryo ng SAP, kabilang ang mga 'waitlisted' o karagdagang mga pamilya,” the DSWD assured the public.
(The distribution of emergency subsidy to the beneficiaries of SAP, including the waitlisted or additional families, continues)
DSWD had earlier declared that for the second tranche of SAP, there are around 14,117,957 beneficiaries -- 1.3 million 4Ps beneficiaries in ECQ areas; 7.2 million non-4Ps beneficiaries in ECQ areas from May 1 to 15; 3.2 million waitlisted families nationwide who did not receive the first tranche; and 2.1 million waitlisted families in ECQ areas from May 1 to 15.
Last week, the DSWD appealed for public understanding, especially to the unserved 1.2 million SAP beneficiaries in the National Capital Region (NCR), after it failed to complete the second tranche distribution of SAP by end of September.
DSWD-NCR Regional Director Vicente Gregorio Tomas said the qualified SAP beneficiaries who have yet to receive their SAP 2 aid need not to worry since the agency is exhausting all means to expeditiously distribute the emergency cash subsidies to its targeted recipients.
He explained that the second tranche distribution has been delayed because the DSWD, along with its financial service providers (FSPs), has to reprocess those failed transactional accounts following the "discrepancies” in the information provided by the beneficiaries themselves.