DSWD-NCR conducts ‘Katok cash card’

TO address the reports on pawning of cash cards among Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries, the Department of Social Welfare and Development - National Capital Region ( DSWD- NCR) through (PDOs) initiated the conduct of “Katok Cash Card,” an on- thespot validation if the cash card is

The activity started in December who are assigned in a particular area are immediately verifying the reports on cash card pawning wherein written warning will be served to to pawn their cash cards.

Cities of Caloocan and Valenzuela are the pilot areas of “Katok Cash Card” wherein 15 out of found guilty in the alleged pawn- ing of their respective cash cards.

“This initiative will strengthen the advocacy of the Department that we are not tolerating this act have to comply with conditions and guidelines of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program as they agreed by signing their “Kasunduan” upon their registration as recipient of it,” DSWD-NCR Regional Director Vincent Andrew Leyson said.

Pantawid Pamilya households beneficiaries in Metro Manila who are receiving their cash grants based on their compliance to the conditionalities of the program.

Out of the said numbers, their grants through their cash cards while the remaining are still in their processing of cash card enrollment.