By DIANN IVY CALUCIN A total of 119 fire victims received livelihood assistance from the Valenzuela City local government and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) at the People's Park Amphitheater in Valenzuela City on Thursday, November 10. The program is part of the Livelihood...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has released P80,775,550 in social pension to 53,851 senior citizens in Negros Occidental in the past nine months. Atty. May Rago-Castillo, public information officer of the DSWD-Western Visayas, said P4,654,500 was...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Western Visayas and the city government of Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental have provided P16 million in aid to 5,444 families or 26,272 individuals displaced by series of clashes in Himamaylan City last month. The...
The national government would have to cough up between P92 billion and P230 billion annually if and when Congress institutionalizes a proposal to provide all senior citizens in the Philippines a universal social pension. (Danie Franco/ Unsplash) There are seven such measures pending before House...
By DIANN IVY CALUCIN The Malabon City local government announced on Tuesday, Nov. 8, that it has already distributed social pension to 12,605 registered senior citizens in the city since Oct. 11. The distribution is under the Social Pension Program for Indigent Senior Citizens (SPISC) of the...
(DSWD-Disaster Response Operations Monitoring and Information Center / Facebook) About 16,114 families or 66,988 individuals affected by severe tropical storm Paeng (international name: Nalgae) continue to seek temporary shelter in 246 evacuation centers nationwide, according to the latest report...
Department of Social Welfare and Development The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has ensured the “easiest and fastest” method of distributing cash aid to residents affected by severe tropical storm Paeng (international name: Nalgae) in accordance with existing auditing rules...
At least P44,410,000 cash aid was turned over by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to Batangas local government units (LGUs) as support for its implementation of the agency's social assistance programs. Photo courtesy of Manila Bulletin Visual Content Group This amount will be...
Two officials of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) were temporarily relieved and transferred to another office after the department received complaints from Noveleta, Cavite Mayor Dino Reyes Chua. Mayor Chua, as disclosed by DSWD Secretary Erwin Tulfo in a press briefing on...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) is closely collaborating with concerned government agencies to streamline the processing of foreign donations by non-government organizations (NGOs) and release these relief goods within three days from 14 working days, especially during calamities. ARTA...
Over 210 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao received P5,000 cash assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)'s Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation program. Photo courtesy of the Department of Social Welfare and Development...
BAGUIO CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development said 2,720 families or 11,150 persons from 99 barangays in 34 towns in six provinces in the Cordillera region were affected by severe tropical storm ‘’Paeng.’’ The DSWD-Cordillera said as of 12 noon on Monday, Oct. 31, the...
