DSWD Social Amelioration Program/Emergency Subsidy Program
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DSWD Social Amelioration Program/Emergency Subsidy Program (As of August 2020), a three-page document. It recounts Proclamation No. 922 s. 2020 declaring a State of Public Health Emergency and describes the Emergency Subsidy Program (ESP) for around 18 million family beneficiaries, with subsidy amounts from a minimum of Five Thousand Pesos to a maximum of Eight Thousand Pesos a month for two months. A table gives the subsidy amount per region. The document reports that the 1st tranche emergency cash subsidy went to 17,695,811 beneficiaries and that the 2nd tranche was disbursed for 7,333,891 beneficiaries.
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DSWD Social Amelioration Program/Emergency Subsidy Program
(As of August 2020)
The President issued Proclamation No. 922 s. 2020 declaring a State of Public Health
Emergency throughout the country. Thereafter, the Interagency Task Force for the
Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), as per its Resolution No.
11 s. 2020, raised the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) threat to the highest alert
level (Code Red Sublevel 2) due to the evidence of sustained community transmission
of the disease. Correspondingly, the President approved the IATF-EID
recommendation to declare a community quarantine in the National Capital Region on
15 March 2020. Following that, the President issued Proclamation No. 929 s. 2020
declaring a State of Calamity throughout the country and imposing a community
quarantine in the entire Luzon.
For that reason, the imposition of a community quarantine and stringent social
distancing measures caused restriction in the mobility of people, suspension of
operations or even closure of business establishments, implementation of alternative
work arrangements in the government and private offices, as well as stoppage of
public transportation. Local government units (LGUs) outside of Luzon also declared
local community quarantine. These developments resulted in the severe disruption of
economic activities all over the country and affected the means of livelihood and
subsistence of low-income households, most especially senior citizens, pregnant and
lactating women, solo parents, overseas Filipinos, persons with disability, indigenous
peoples, underprivileged and homeless families, and informal economy workers.
In view thereof, Republic Act (RA) No. 11469 or the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act of
2020 was passed to adopt an intensified government response which covers full
assistance for LGUs and mobilizes necessary resources to undertake urgent and
appropriate measures to curtail the effects of the community quarantine declarations
on the economic, physical and psychosocial wellbeing of the most affected citizens.
Thus, the DSWD has been mandated to implement social amelioration measures to
provide subsidy for basic necessities and ways for the recovery of most affected
families and individuals. Social amelioration measures of the DSWD include the
Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS), Augmentation of Food and Non-
Food Items, Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP), Social Pension for Indigent Senior
Citizens and Supplementary Feeding Program.
At the core of its social amelioration measures, the DSWD implements the Emergency
Subsidy Program (ESP). The ESP shall be provided – through various national and
local government social amelioration programs – to around 18 million family
beneficiaries as defined in Joint Memorandum Circular No. 1 s. 2020. The subsidy
amounts from a minimum of Five Thousand Pesos (PhP5,000.00) to a maximum of
Eight Thousand Pesos (PhP8,000.00) a month, for two (2) months, in both cash and
kind, to provide for basic needs such as food, medicine and toiletries.
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Subsidy Amount per Region
Daily Minimum Wage Subsidy Amount
Region
(In Php) (In Php)
NCR 537.00 8,000.00
CAR 350.00 5,500.00
I 340.00 5,500.00
II 370.00 5,500.00
III 420.00 6,500.00
IV-A 400.00 6,500.00
MIMAROPA 320.00 5,000.00
V 310.00 5,000.00
VI 395.00 6,000.00
VII 404.00 6,000.00
VIII 315.00 5,000.00
IX 316.00 5,000.00
X 365.00 6,000.00
XI 396.00 6,000.00
XII 326.00 5,000.00
Caraga 320.00 5,000.00
BARMM 325.00 5,000.00
Computation is based on the prevailing regional minimum wage rates, taking into
account the subsidy amount given under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program
(4Ps) cash grants and rice subsidy, which is estimated at PhP2,150.00 per month per
family. Thus, the 4Ps cash grants and rice subsidy are augmented to reach the
mandated ESP subsidy of PhP5,000.00 to PhP8,000.00.
Along the 1st tranche DSWD SAP/ESP implementation, a total amount of
Php99,982,104,250.00 was disbursed through the payment of emergency cash
subsidy to a total of 17,695,811 beneficiaries, as follows:
13,310,259 low-income non-4Ps families, in the total amount of
Php80,623,755,750.00;
4,287,420 4Ps household beneficiaries, in the total amount of
Php18,573,292,500.00; and,
98,132 drivers of the Transport Network Vehicle Service (TNVS) and Public Utility
Vehicle (PUV) in NCR, in the total amount of Php785,056,000.00.
In line with the 2nd tranche SAP implementation, a total amount of
Php46,449,503,600.00 was disbursed for 7,333,891 beneficiaries, as follows:
5,946,887 non-4Ps families, in the total amount of Php39,445,579,000.00; and,
1,387,004 4Ps households in the total amount of Php7,003,924,600.00.
During the 1st tranche SAP implementation, there were 1,075,970 beneficiaries who
received emergency cash subsidy twice. Thus, these beneficiaries were considered
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to have already been provided with two (2) tranches of said subsidy, but only utilizing
the 1st tranche budget.
The payout of SAP emergency cash subsidy for waitlisted low-income non-4Ps
families commenced in Makati City (NCR) on July 5, 2020, Benguet (CAR) on June
16, 2020, Abra (CAR) on June 27, 2020, La Union (Region I) on June 21, 2020, Ilocos
Norte (Region I) on June 24, 2020, Ilocos Sur (Region I) on June 24, 2020, Pangasinan
(Region I) on June 27, 2020, Pampanga (Region III) on June 22, 2020, Bulacan
(Region III) on June 23, 2020, Tarlac (Region III) on July 3, 2020, Batangas (Region
IV-A) on July 3, 2020, Capiz (Region VI) on July 4, 2020, Cebu (Region VII) on July 5,
2020, Eastern Samar (Region VIII) on July 5, 2020, Davao City (Region XI) on July 5,
2020 and South Cotabato (Region XII) on July 2, 2020.
To date, a total amount of Php21,515,659,000.00 was disbursed for 3,246,325
waitlisted (left-out) low-income non-4Ps families nationwide. Likewise, 1,758,441
waitlisted (left-out) low-income non-4Ps families in Enhanced Community Quarantine
(ECQ) areas received their 2nd tranche emergency cash subsidy, in the total amount
of Php12,125,957,500.00.
Moreover, a total amount of Php1,062,875,000.00 was disbursed for the emergency
cash subsidy of 150,695 TNVS/PUV drivers nationwide. A total amount of
Php203,094,000.00 was further disbursed for 33,336 TNVS/PUV drivers in ECQ
areas.
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