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Help students pay P4.4-M disallowed funds to CHED, solon asks DSWD

Published Sep 23, 2022 02:18 pm

Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin has called on Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Erwin Tulfo to assist 338 students who are being required to return P4.4 million in disallowed funds to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).

Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN)

This, after the Commission on Audit (COA) issued a notice of disallowance on the CHED’s scholarship grants. Some grantees received excessive amounts, up to double the prescribed amount.

These grantees received around P15,000 and were asked to return the overpayment to the CHED. The CHED found that many of these students hailed from Regions II and V.

The lady solon called on DSWD chief Tulfo to assist the students asked to return the funds. She also noted that the disallowances were made back in 2018.

"We are humbly asking Social Welfare Secretary Erwin Tulfo, may mga programa sila gaya ng (the DSWD has programs like the) Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) na maaaring paghugutan para makabayad na ang ating mga estudyante sa CHED (that they can extract from to help the students pay the CHED),” Garin said on Friday, Sept. 23.

“This is to free them from debt at wala na silang alalahanin na may utang silang dapat na bayaran, malaki ang halaga na ito na baka ipangutang pa nga ng mga estudyante o kanilang magulang (so that they won't worry anymore about their debt. This is a big thing that might drive the students and their parents into further debt),” she continued.

The lawmaker said that there were students in need of extra financial aid at the time they received the grants, and that the grantees should be given leeway if they were not aware that they received double scholarship grants.

“Gustuhin man ng (Even if the) CHED (wants) to allow double scholarship dahil may ilang estudyante na kailangan naman talaga ng dagdag na pinansyal na tulong ay tali ang kanilang kamay dahil sa patakaran ng COA na sa isang programa lang pwede mag-avail ng scholarship (because there are students who need the extra financial aid, their hands are tied because of the COA’s policy which mandates that students can only avail of a scholarship under one program),” Garin explained.

Meanwhile, CHED Executive Director Cindy Jaro expressed similar sentiments as Garin.

Jaro noted that students already enrolled in their respective institutions won't receive further financial assistance if they had not addressed the reimbursement, and that graduated students would still be required to pay it back.

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