The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) explained the reasons on the reduction in the number of qualified beneficiaries for the second tranche of the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) to 14,117,957. DSWD said that one reason for the decrease is the stringent validation and deduplication process that was conducted to ensure that only qualified continue reading : DSWD explains reduction of eligible beneficiaries for SAP second tranche