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.
Hi po sana mapansin din po ako. Bukod po kasi sa hindi pa po kami nabibigyan ng relief goods, hindi pa din po dumadaan yung mga brgy for social amelioration program e.
Bakit po dito sa barangay 28 caloocan city, eh nagpapila? Di po ang instruction nyo eh magbahay bahay? Nakakaawa lng po panuorin habang nakapila mga tao. Una nilang papila dito eh umaga, nung nakaraang past 2 ng hapon. Kanina naman medyo maggabi na at bago magpapila eh umulan muna. Eh panu kung umulan nung oras na yun? Paki aksyonan po. Walang magawa mga tao dito kasi kelangan na di nila ang pera. Mga TAMAD ang representative nyo dito sa brgy. 28. Caloocan city. Salamat po.
DSWD, Sir! Ako po ay isang senior citizen na at dahilan sa may sinusupurtahan pa akong mga Apo ay nagmamaneho pa rin ng taxi hanggang sa oras na mag lockdown. Sa Bulacan po ako nakarehistro ng aking senior citizen at dito naman po ako inabut ng lockdown sa Las Piñas kasi po dito na ako nakatira. Nang magenquire ako dito sa Barangay na nakakasakup para sa SAP, ang Sabi ng Kapitan ay dapat sa Bulacan ako magpalista. Ang problema stock-up na po ako dito sa Las Piñas dahilan sa ECQ. Wala na po akong kakayahan para magbakasakali pa sa lugar namin sa Bulacan. At kung gagawin ko man, bad news din ang tatambad sa akin sapagkat ganun din ang problema ng mga Kapatid at mga pamangkin ko sa Bulacan. May form na napirmahan ngunit hanggang ngayun, Abril 18 ay wala pa ring katiyakan kung sila’y mabibigyan. Ang tanung ko po saan o kaninu ako lalapit para makapag-avail ako ng inyung TULONG? Maraming salamat po at patnubayan Kayu ng Banal na Spiritu sa inyung mga adhikain.
Dpo b kasali ung no work no pay kc dpo kame nakasali sa napili kc daw 1 lng anak namin tapos nagmemaintenance pa ako ng gamot construction working po ako na lockdown ako d2 sa valenzuela
Ask ko lng po
Single mom
Dalawa ang anak my isa po ako anak na pwd
Wala sarili bhay nkki tira lng
Patay na po asawa ko kya single mom po ako
Hindi po ba ako mppasali sa form ng dswd slanat po sa ssagot
totoo po ba na walang matatanggap ang may tindahan na maliit lalu na’t senior citezen ang my ari nito???
panu po pag solo parents pero walang id o hindi naka rehistro na solo parents sya????
good evening po. gusto ko lang po ipaalam na marami pong pamilya ang naapektohan ng enhanced community quarantine dito samin, isa na po ako. lahat kami ay no work no pay. may kapansanan pa ako. need namin ng tulong ng gobyerno. wala pong pumunta na DSWD dito samin para magbigay ng form para sa Social Amelioration Program (SAP).
wala pa po kaming natatanggap na ayuda. sana pansinin nyo naman kami dito.
Sa Jollibee City mall Calapan City Oriental Mindoro wla p pong ayudang nttangap no work no pay po kmi sna po mpsama kmi sa ayuda nyo.
god day po maam sir aku po ay isang solo parents
sana po ay matulongan niyo po kame ng akin mg anak dahil sa ang akin po pag online seller ay na tigil dahil sa covid …aku po ay humihinge ng tulong aa inyo maraming salamat po
vendor po ako may 6 na anak nangungupahan po ng bahay, ayon po sa programa ng gobyerno pasok po ang vendor sa mabibigyan ng social amelioration program, binigyan po kmi ng sac form para mag fil up, mga ilang araw po eh dumating na nga ung bigayan ng ayuda at ang sabi po sakin ay hindi dw po ako qualified, bkit po ganun ang naging panuntunan ng programang social amelioration, salamat po sainyong magiging tugon sa aking po tanong.