CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, August 27, 2012-Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is calling all Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in Central Luzon who intend to transfer residency in another barangay, municipality, city, province or region to coordinate with their respective city or municipal links to ensure their continued enrollment into the program.
Pantawid Pamilya regional information officer Dennis Garcia said “we follow certain change of residency procedures under our Beneficiary Update System that is why it is important for these transferees to immediately inform our coordinators on the field in the soonest possible time so that they may still receive cash grants.”
Garcia added “a system is also being followed for those who had already transferred and are having problems in the receipt of their stipends.”
Garcia enjoins those who have questions to call or text their regional hotline- 09178451707.
Pantawid Pamilya provides cash grants of P1,400 per month during school months (June-March) and P500 per month during non-school months (April-May) or P300 per child per month as education grant and P500 per household per month as health grant to household beneficiaries as long as they comply with certain conditions like the regular visit of children in health centers to avail immunization and maintenance of a class attendance rate of at least 85% per month for those who are enrolled in day care centers or schools.
Grantees were selected through the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) - the similar instrument used in determining the recipients of the Self Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran (SEA-K), Social Pension and Cash-for-Work programs.
NHTS-PR is an information management system that identifies who and where the poor are in the country. It uses the Proxy Means Test (PMT) in the selection of beneficiaries for social welfare programs and services.
The PMT is a statistical model that estimates household income using proxy variables included in the household assessment form (HAF).
Some of the variables used in the PMT are family composition, education of household members, housing conditions and access to basic services.
These variables were sourced out from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) and Labor Force Survey (LFS) of the National Statistics Office.
A household whose economic condition falls on or below the poverty line would qualify for the specific programs and services of DSWD.
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