MindaNews » DSWD-12 delists 11,367 ‘unqualified’ 4Ps beneficiaries.

By Allen V. Estabillo
January 27, 2012

  GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/26 January) – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Region 12 or the Soccsksargen region has delisted some 11,367 households from the beneficiary database of the national government’s conditional cash transfer program due to inclusion errors, fraud and other eligibility problems.

Bai Zorahayda Taha, DSWD Region 12 director, said the move is part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to cleanse the anti-poverty program, which is also known as Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps, of unqualified beneficiaries to ensure that it would only benefit the “poorest of the poor” households in the area.

“This is a continuing process and we’re currently reviewing and verifying various complaints regarding questions on the status or qualification of some of our beneficiaries,” she said.
Taha, who acts as regional program manager of 4Ps, said the review and verification of the beneficiary list is a component of the grievance redress system or GRS that was adopted by the agency to address concerns and complaints regarding its overall implementation.

The DSWD central office ordered last year a nationwide review of the 4Ps’ beneficiary list due to the confirmed inclusion of unqualified beneficiaries into the program.

In Region 12, program implementers noted that a number of unqualified beneficiaries such as teachers, barangay officials and other government workers, among others, had been “erroneously included” in the program.

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