Over 83K W. Visayas households reactivated as 4Ps members

ILOILO CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Tuesday 83,101 households in Western Visayas have been reactivated as members of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program(4Ps) as of April 2024.

DSWD-6 Regional Director Carmelo Nochete said the families were supposed to exit from the program following the result of the Listahanan, the database of poor households, in 2019 showing their improved well-being status.

“When the validation was conducted, the pandemic that happened in 2020 was not anticipated. The majority of them backslid to poverty, so there was a re-assessment, and based on the result, they were returned to the program,” he said during the Kapihan sa Bagong Pilipinas.

He said the release of their stipends was also reactivated in April this year.

The reactivated households are part of the 361,756 households enrolled in the program in the region.

Nochete said there are also 56,620 households that have exited from the program after showing improved well-being as per the Social Welfare Development Indicator.

“It’s a manifestation of the success of the implementation of the program,” he said, adding that they have been turned over to local government units (LGUs) for after-care services to ensure they will not backslide into poverty.

DSWD also provided them with assistance through the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP), a capacity-building program for poor and vulnerable sectors and communities to improve their socio-economic conditions through the provision of livelihood.

They also received scholarship, health, and employment support. (PNA)