Senior Citizen Party-list Representative Rodolfo "Ompong" Ordanes has called on the government to effect serious changes in the system of financial aid distribution across the country. The lawmaker made the call following the recent death of a motorcycle taxi rider, during a special...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Monday, April 20, ordered a review of the city’s fuel subsidy system after a motorcycle taxi rider died during the distribution of assistance amid extreme heat. Belmonte expressed condolences to the bereaved family and said the city government would strengthen...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has extended assistance to the family of a motorcycle taxi driver who collapsed and later died while waiting in line for a special payout for drivers in Quezon City on Saturday, April 18. The payout at the Quezon Memorial Circle (QMC) forms...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development will start distributing cash assistance to 72,800 tricycle drivers in the Calabarzon region on Wednesday to ease the impact of the oil crisis. The agency said an initial 24,616 tricycle drivers from Batangas City, Lipa City, Calaca City, Tanauan...
A total of 21,127 delivery riders operating in Manila are being targeted to receive the P5,000 fuel subsidy from the national government starting on Thursday, March 26, as part of its efforts in alleviating the adverse economic effects of the Middle East war in the country, particularly on the...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Monday, Jan. 12 said it will adopt guidelines from the Ayuda Para sa Kapos ang Kita Program (AKAP) that prohibit the participation of politicians and other government officials in offsite payout activities for financial assistance programs,...
(File photo) Around 400 checks intended for the payout of the second batch of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who lost their jobs in various construction companies in Saudi Arabia nearly a decade ago will finally be distributed “within the next month.” Department of Migrant Workers (DMW)...
Parañaque City Mayor Eric Olivarez led the distribution of social pension to the third batch of indigent senior citizens from the city's District I on Friday, June 23. Olivarez said the last batch, totaling 751 indigent senior citizens, received their social pension payout at Barangay Don Galo...
BUTUAN CITY – Sen. Imee Marcos led the distribution of financial assistance to 1,364 beneficiaries from Agusan del Norte under the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) program on Wednesday, March 31, at the Agusan del Norte...
Citizens flock in front of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Legarda Street, Manila, after receiving information that they will receive livelihood assistance from DSWD on January 13, 2023. Some residents started to line up as early as 6 p.m. on Thursday, January 12, but...
QUEZON Rep. David C. Suarez, DOLE provincial director Edwin Hernandez, and board member Ferdinand Talabong with DOLE-TUPAD beneficiaries during the payout in Lucena City. (Danny Estacio) LUCENA CITY, Quezon – Some 1,000 beneficiaries of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-TUPAD program...
The cash payout for the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations (AICS) program has been temporarily suspended by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) until the processing of the agency's fund for 2023 is finished. Distribution of DSWD’s Assistance to Individuals in...
