The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office XI, through the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), is currently conducting the region-wide validation of the identified non-poor households based on the latest results of the third Listahanan nationwide assessment, or Listahanan 3. Region XI has 75,631 non-poor households subject to validation.

Through a guidance memorandum, based on the order of DSWD Secretary Erwin T. Tulfo, the entire workforce of 4Ps Onse was deployed starting August 17 up to September 28, 2022, to personally visit all the identified households.

The workers aimed to identify if these households were truly eligible beneficiaries under the Pantawid Pamilya. The social workers evaluated the beneficiaries based on their income sources, employment, skills, and access to other resources such as safe drinking water, sanitary facilities, housing, and other social services. With them were the SWDI General Intake Sheets (GIS), (a one-page household profile that compiles the demographics and socio-economic characteristics) and the SWDI Score Sheet (a four-page form containing information on the family’s score for each indicator corresponding to sufficiency and social adequacy). The purpose of the visitation was also to identify households that were no longer poor and subject them to the graduation process.

The validation was in accordance with Section 16 of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of R.A. 11310 highlighting standardized procedures used to assess households’ well-being before exiting the program. While, Section 34 accounts for one ground for exit from the program, if the household becomes non-poor in the latest Listahanan, without prejudice to Section 16 of the same law.

Since the early years of the 4Ps implementation, it was known to all the beneficiaries that the program had its conditions. When these conditions are not met, there will be a possible delisting. These were true for households that no longer have eligible monitored children; households that were waived from the program; non-compliant households; and those who were subjected to graduation as they reached the Level 3 or self-sufficient level of well-being.

Pantawid Pamilya is the national poverty reduction strategy of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to the poorest of the poor to improve the health, nutrition, and education of children aged 0–18. ###

September 5, 2022