89k 'students-in-crisis' receive educational aid on 3rd Day of DSWD distribution

Nearly 90,000 students in crisis situation have received a one-time cash assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on the third day of the agency’s Educational Assistance Payout on Saturday, Sept. 3.
DSWD’s consolidated report showed that P225.37 million in educational aid was distributed to 89,736 student-beneficiaries on Sept. 3.
Of the total student-beneficiaries, 27,458 are in elementary (P27.44 million); 19,628 are in junior high school (P39.08 million); 12,454 in senior high school (P38.05 million); and 30,196 in college/vocational school (P120.78 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.
The DSWD will conduct payouts every Saturday until Sept. 24.
“Same guidelines . Only those with text confirmation after their online registration will be processed. No walk-in applicants,” said DSWD spokesperson Assistant Secretary Romel Lopez pointed out.
He said that some DSWD field offices are now processing educational assistance during weekdays to hasten the distribution of cash assistance.