Over P1B in educational aid distributed to 'students-in-crisis' as of Sept. 17 — DSWD

Over 400,000 students in crisis have received a one-time cash aid through the Educational Assistance Payout of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) as of Saturday, Sept. 17.
DSWD’s consolidated report showed that 1.033 billion in educational aid was already disbursed out of the P1.5 billion allocated for the program.
So far, 414,482 student-beneficiaries have been served across the country.
Of the total student-beneficiaries, 126,775 are in elementary (P127.41 million); 92,856 beneficiaries are in junior high school (P185.72 million); 58,502 beneficiaries are in senior high school (P175.47 million); and 136,349 beneficiaries in college/vocational school (P544.99 million).
Each beneficiary is given cash assistance amounting to P1,000 for those in elementary, P2,000 in junior high school, P3,000 in senior high school, and P4,000 in college or vocational school.
The educational assistance under the DSWD’s Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations or AICS program is intended to help students in crisis or emergency situations.
Considered students-in-crisis are breadwinners, working students, orphans/abandoned and living with relatives, children of a single parent, children whose parents are unemployed, children of an overseas Filipino worker, victims of child abuse, have a parent with human immunodeficiency virus or HIV, and victims of calamity or disaster.
DSWD will conduct its final payout on Sept. 24.
It announced on Sept. 10 that the online registration for its educational assistance program for students-in-crisis has been closed amid registering 2 million individuals.