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.
Dlawang buwan na po sya wlang trabho panu nlng po ang kakainin nmin dahil ngayon wla pa nakukuha ang kinakasama ko sana po matulongan nyo po sya para makuha sa ayuda ng dole
Hello po yung kinakasama ko po wala pa po nakukuha ayuda sa dole may trabaho po sya ditu po sa Quezon city ang sabi po ng amo nya po ng pasa na dw po sila pero walang po sa master list ang pangalan ng agency nila pano po yun pwede po ba dumirekta nalang po sya sa dole
May maliit lang po ako sari-sari store sa aming bahay, pero ito po ay lagi rin sarado dahil sa lockdown, bakit po kaya ndi ako nasali sa sap ala rin po ako sbws dahil unemployed nman po ako sana po matugunan nyo ang aking hinaing. Salamat po
Ako din diti sa malanday Valenzuela ! Di binigyan ng form ng SAP single daw ako pero apekdo ako dhil sarado computer shop ko. .tama ba un?
maam/sir..tanong kulng poh bkit hnidi kmi nadala sa SAP??kc no work no pay poh ako,wala rin ako nkuha sa dole or sbws,,sana matulongan nio poh ako..ako ay my anak na binibilhan ko nga gatas at walang wala na po ako..salamat
sa manansala po siya nakatira…..hindi po kase siya makalabas……dahil ng sa bawal lumabas yung mga senior citizen….bogs lagman name niya……
My senior citizen po ako kasama dito…..pano po siya makakahuha niyang 8k
Dito po sa Belleview Meadows Bagtas Tanza Cavite wala pa pong nabigyan ng SAP form.
Sa mga kinauukulan po ako po ay isang driver february pa lang naka leave na ako dahil may sakit po na diabetes hanggang sa mag lockdown wala na po akung kita ni wala rin pambili gamot nag aantay po ako sa ltfrb kng may kasunod pang listahan pero wala na hanggang sa SAP akala ko makakuha ako pero wala rin pinaperma lng ako sa barangay bayanan muntinlupa sabi stay at home natapos nalang bigayan ng sap walng nag text sa akin sana makakuha man lng salamat po
Good morning po..kami ay no work no pay sa lugar namin tatlong beses nabigyan kami ng relief goods unang tanggap 5 kilo lahat 15 kilos…sa ibang lugar namin tumanggap ng ayuda ngunit dito sa amin walking distance lang napakalapit pero wala po kaming natanhgap na ayuda talaba2 barangay 2 bacoor cavite..sana matulungan nyo kami maraming salamat po.
Hi po dito po sa Zamboanga ng malayal po?
Hindi pa ako nakasali sa pamimigay ng ayuda.
Single mom po ako may isang anak 1yr old?
Wla na po akong pambili ng gatas at diaper ng anak Hindi ko po alam kong saan ako hihiram ng pera?
Naka stay at home parin kame
Hingi lang po ako ng tulong po sa inyo?
Shiellamae L. Gumotud po ito.