The Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in Luzon and other parts of the country has left many Filipinos jobless for the time being. This also means that these families do not have any source of income for their basic needs.
In order to address this pressing issue, the government has allotted Php210 billion budget to support 18 million low-income families nationwide.
Through the social amelioration program under the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in cooperation with other departments such as but not limited to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Finance (DOF), Department of Budget and Management (DBM), and Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), vulnerable families will receive aid both in cash and in kind amounting from Php5,000 to Php8,000 depending on where they live.
READ: How much should you receive from the Social Amelioration Program?
Who are eligible to receive the Social Amelioration Program?
According to Joint Memorandum Circular No.1 , the primary target of the said amelioration program are poor families or those in the informal sector who do not have any means of income during the ECQ, with at least one household member who is part of the following:
1.) Senior Citizens
2.) Persons with Disability
3.) Pregnant and Lactating Women
4.) Solo Parents
5.) Overseas Filipinos Workers who no longer have work because they were repatriated or banned from traveling outside of the Philippines because of COVID-19 crisis
6.) Indigent Indigenous People
7.) Homeless Citizens and Underprivileged Sector are those who live below poverty line or those without a house to live
8.) Informal Economy Workers
- Occasional Workers (e.g. labandera)
- Subcontracted Workers (e.g. pakyaw workers)
- Homeworkers (e.g. workers in family business such as crafts making, food processing, etc.);
- Househelpers – who are not currently earning or cannot work because of the ECQ (e.g. kasambahay, family driver)
- Pedicab, UVs, Tricycle, PUJs, Taxi, PUBs, Transport Network Vehicle Service (TNVS) and Transport Network Companies (TNC) drivers (also includes Grab, Angkas, Joyride riders and such)
- micro-business and Sari-sari Store owners, and other similar business with asset less than Php10,000
- Small Family Business Owners (e.g. vegetable or fruit vendors, streets vendors, RTW, carinderia, etc.)
- Sub Minimum Wage Earners (e.g. helpers in carinderia, sari-sari store)
- Farm workers and Fisherfolks (e.g. magsasaka, mangingisda etc)
- “no work, no pay” employees
- Stranded workers (e.g. construction workers stranded in their respective construction site/s).
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How to avail the Social Amelioration Program?
1.) Social amelioration cards (SAC) will be distributed by the Local Government Unit (LGU) to qualified households. This will be given on a house-to-house setup.
2.) Provide all information asked in the SAC. Make sure to include all details needed.
3.) Submit the SAC to the assigned LGU officer who will go to your house.
4.) DSWD will provide the financial assistance through the LGU.
May the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries avail the Social Amelioration Program?
Yes, beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), may avail the social amelioration program, non-food aids and food packs on top of their benefits in 4Ps.
If you have questions, you may call DSWD hotline number 8-951-2803.
Nakalimutan ko po bangitin, dito po ako sa bacoor, cavite. Sana po matulungan nio po kaming nasa listahan ng qualified naman po na makatanggap kasi po mahirap lang po kami. Salamat po.
Good morning, single/solo parent po ako, kabilang din sa no work no pay, working po ako sa printing but now na lockdown closed po ang company, pero nun ngpunta dswd dito sa bahay ang sabi ng dswd ndi dw po qualified kc wala ID.??? Wala nman po nabanggit ang Pangulo na ndi ka mabigyan dhil ala ka Id.. Please po pakitulungan po ako. Salamat po
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Barangay Poblacion, Alabel Sarangani Province,
Please investigate!
1)Forms are photocopied (which means not the original one)
2) people were asked to sign the form which stated, they will be receiving php 2,300 instead of php 5,000
for what reasons, please trace and asked the chairman of this barangay.,
Feel free to send me a message if you have read this. Thank you.
Meron po dito sa obando bulacan kaso po hinde po ako nabigyan ng form may anak po ako na pwd.may nag survey din po HND rin po kme nponthan sa tinirahan nmn.ano poba pwd gawin page ganyan 3yrs old LNG po yng ank ko.
kapag po ba nagbigya. ata nkapill up and nkapag sign and tumb mark na sa form sure n un n mkakatanggap marami smin d2 ngsasabi na mismong sa dswd dw ngsabi na kahit nbigyan at nkapirma na nd pa sure n mabibigyan dahil pipiliin pa dw nla ehh namili nmn n cla ng bibigyan?salmat sa sasagot
Sana nman po mgkaroon ng maayus n sistema ang ating dswd kasi po kawawa nman yung katulad sa akin n umaasa n mkakatangap isa po kasi akng street vendor n nwalan ng hnap buhay mula ng magsimula ang ecq..
Pano mga po ba makakaavail ng social amelioration program? Ang brgy po ba magbibigay ng fifilluppan ? Kasi po ako lactating Pero wala naman pong binigay samin
Bakit po dto phase 2 hillsview naic cavite hindi po ngsurvey Ang dswd Taz Yung binigyan lang nila NG form Yung mga mapepeRa pa at mga pumapasok pa sa work, samantalang kami wLANG TRBAHO ANG asawa q at ako nman NG eextra lng NG pasok pero sa ngayun wlang kita gawa NG lockdown pero di kmi binigyan NG ayuda.. Bakit parang nangyare walAng kwenta Yung dswd dto NAIC..haiissstttt
Dito po sa malolos bulacan wala pa form na binibigay sana po mabigyan po ng ayuda yung no work no pay yun lang po
Isa po akong solo parent widow npo ako
Sana po mabigyan along ayuda ng gobyerno
Para po sa mga anak ko.salamat po
Taga San ildefonso Bulacan po ako