The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Wednesday, Dec. 6 reiterated its guidelines for obtaining travel clearance for minors aged 17 and under who are traveling abroad alone or unaccompanied by their parents or legal guardians. DSWD Spokesperson and Assistant Secretary for...
1-PACMAN Party-list Rep. Mikee Romero The House Committee on Poverty Alleviation has gained an assurance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development that the 700,000 families delisted from the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) will not only...
As part of its ongoing “Oplan Pag-Abot” program, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) unveiled the “Pag-Abot sa Pasko,” or the agency’s special reach-out operations for “families and individuals in street situations” this month. DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian led the...
In commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) Campaign, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) joined the Philippine Legislators' Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) in calling for greater unity in the implementation of...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Friday, Dec. 1, was recognized as one of the top-performing government agencies for the third quarter of the year, according to the Tugon ng Masa (TNM) nationwide survey conducted by OCTA Research. DSWD / Manila Bulletin In a...
The Department of Education (DepEd) was consistently the “most trusted and top-performing” government agency in the country based on the key findings from the Tugon ng Masa (TNM) nationwide survey, an independent and non-partisan poll conducted regularly by OCTA RESEARCH released on Friday,...
Kim Kim Inde, a former monitored child of the Department of Social Welfare and Development's (DSWD) Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), emerged as one of the top notchers of the November 2023 Midwives Licensure Exam (MLE) result. Photo from Kim Kim Inde The DSWD shared in a statement on...
National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) Secretary Lope Santos III said the government is hoping to bring the country's poverty rate down to a single digit by 2028. Speaking at the Department of Social Welfare and Development's (DSWD) Weekly Media Forum on Thursday, Nov. 30, Santos said to achieve...
(Department of Social Welfare and Development- Disaster Response Operations Monitoring and Information Center/Facebook) The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has distributed P60 million worth of food and non-food items, as well as cash assistance, to families displaced by the...
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) spokesperson and Assistant Secretary Romel Lopez said on Tuesday, Nov. 28 that there are no backlogs in the distribution of the P500 monthly social pension for indigent senior citizens. Based on the DSWD data, there are 4.1 million indigent senior...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) should resolve the issues that are causing the delays in the distribution of the social pension for indigent senior citizens, Sen. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara said on Monday, November 27. The senator said nearly P50-billion is...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Monday, Nov. 27 said around 41,000 indigent senior citizens of Antique received their annual social pension for 2023. “The DSWD has disbursed and completed the release of the first and second semester pension to some 41,927 indigent...
