DSWD prepares payout for 5-M waitlisted SAP beneficiaries
CLARK FREEPORT--In continuation of the Social Amelioration Program (SAP), the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is in the process of preparing for the distribution of emergency cash subsidy to the five million "waitlisted" families.
The waitlisted beneficiaries were added in the first tranche of SAP implementation as directed by President Rodrigo Duterte.
DSWD reminded local government units (LGUs) across the nation to identify eligible low-income families, validated and assessed to be financially and economically affected by the declaration of community quarantine but were not included in the initial eighteen million family beneficiaries of SAP for the first tranche.
As stipulated in its guidelines, the master list submitted by the LGUs must include the names of the beneficiaries with a certification signed by the city/municipal/ provincial social welfare and development officer and their local chief executive. The certification must state that the names on the submitted master list are reviewed and qualified or eligible based on existing guidelines.
Once the master list is submitted to the DSWD Field Office, it will be subjected to regional deduplication wherein cross-matching of the names of beneficiaries with the available databases of the department and list/ s shared by other government agencies implementing SAP will be performed to ensure that the names listed have not previously received aid. This will ascertain that there will be no duplication in the availment of emergency subsidies.
The list shall be further subjected to deduplication process at the DSWD Central Office to determine any duplication at the inter-regional level to arrive at a certified list.
DSWD will issue Social Amelioration Card (SAC) forms with code specifically for the additional benefi ci ar i es.
DSWD is seeking the help of local LGUs to post their master list in public so that their constituents can check the list of additional SAP benefi ci ar i es.