PROGRAM OVERVIEW

PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM

Serving more than 4.4 million households nationwide WHAT IS PANTAWID • A human development program of the
national government implemented
PAMILYANG PILIPINO
through the Department of Social
LEGAL BASIS PROGRAM? Welfare and Development (DSWD)
EO No. 221 of 2003, “Amending EO No. 15, series of 1998,entitled • Partners with the Department of
“Redirecting the Functions and Operations of the Department of Social Education (DepEd), Department of
Welfare and Development” as stated in Section 1, as follows: Health (DOH) and the Department
of Interior and Local Government
“SECTION 1. Mandate. Consistent with the provisions of
the Administrative Code of 1987 and Republic Act 7160
(DILG) in coordination with the local
(Local Government Code), the DSWD is hereby mandated government units (LGUs)
to provide assistance to local government units (LGUs), • An investment in human capital that
non-government organizations (NGOs), other national
ensures children belonging to poor
government agencies (NGAs), people’s organizations (POs)
and members of civil society in effectively implementing households, aged 0-18, grow up
programs, projects, and services that will alleviate poverty healthy and stay in school
and empower disadvantaged individuals, families and
• Utilizes the conditional cash transfer
communities for an improved quality of life as well as
implement statutory and specialized programs which are scheme wherein beneficiaries receive
directly lodged with the Department and/or not yet devolved cash grants based on their compliance
to LGUs.” to their co-responsibilities
Also, the implementation of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program is in Household beneficiaries must comply WHAT ARE THE PROGRAM
pursuant to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) addressing the
with the conditionalities on health and CONDITIONALITIES/ BENEFICIARIES’
following:
education to receive their cash grants. CO-RESPONSIBILITIES?
1) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger;
2) Achieve universal primary education; These are:
3) Reduce child mortality;
4) Improve maternal health; and For Education:
5) Promote gender equality and empower women.
• Children 6-18 years old enroll in primary
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) as one of / secondary schools or equivalent
the national agencies working towards the achievement of the MDG is
Alternative Learning System / Alternative
committed to implement the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. As
such, the Department issued DSWD Administrative Order No. 16, titled, Delivery Method, and have at least 85%
Guidelines in the Implementation of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. school attendance
• Children 3-5 years old attend daycare/
preschool program with at least 85%
school attendance
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 For Health:
• Children 0-5 years old get regular Eligible households will have to attend the Community Assembly
preventive health check-ups, growth (ComAss) for their actual registration for the program. Households
monitoring and vaccines are required to submit documentary requirements such as marriage
• Pregnant women get pre-natal care and certificate and birth certificates of the child/ren
attended by skilled/professional health
WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF GRANTS THAT BENEFICIARIES GET?
worker during child birth. Mothers who
have given birth get post-natal care • Subject to compliance with the conditionalities, a household is
in accordance with the standard DOH entitled to receive the following grants:
protocol Health Grant:
• Children 6-14 years old must receive de- » P500 per month per household
worming pills twice a year
For Family Development Session: Education Grant:
» P300 per month for 10 months for elementary
• Parents/guardians attend the monthly FDS where topics on
effective parenting, husband and wife relationships, child » P500 per month for 10 months for high school
development, laws affecting the Filipino family, gender and
development and home management are being discussed » Maximum of three (3) children per household is covered
by the program
SELECTION CRITERIA AND COVERAGE AND ENTITLEMENT • Households receive their grants every two months through their
Land Bank cash cards or through other conduits authorized by the
To be eligible, a household: Land bank such as Globe Remit, Rural Banks, First Consolidated
HOW ARE THE BENEFICIARIES Bank, and Cooperative Financial Institutions.
• Must be identified as poor based SELECTED?
on the database of the Listahanan
(formerly known as the National
PANTAWID PAMILYA HIGH SCHOOL EXPANSION
Household Targeting System for
Poverty Reduction) WHAT IS THE PANTAWID PAMILYA HIGH SCHOOL EXPANSION?
• Must have children aged 0-18 or
• Pantawid Pamilya expands the age coverage of eligible children
have a pregnant member at the
beneficiaries from 0-14 to 0-18 years old.
time of the enumeration
• This will ensure that school-aged children will be given financial
• Must be willing and able to
assistance until they reach 18 years old or finish high school,
comply with the conditionalities
whichever comes first.
of the program as part of their co-
responsibilities

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 WHEN A CHILD BENEFICIARY GRADUATES FROM HIGH SCHOOL,
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO HOUSEHOLDS WHO GOT DELISTED DUE
CAN THE HOUSEHOLD ENROLL THEIR OTHER CHILDREN?
TO INELIGIBILITY OF THE AGE REQUIREMENT?
Under the existing policy, when any of the children beneficiaries within
Households who were previously deactivated in the program due to not
the household graduates from high school or reaches 18, replacement
having children aged 0-14 (previous policy) will be validated for possible
is not allowed.
reinstatement if they still have children aged 0-18 in the household and
have not finished high school. However, replacement of monitored child may be allowed in the
following circumstances:
HOW MANY CHILDREN ARE COVERED IN THE EXPANSION?
1. Child acquired full scholarship
The program maintains its policy of covering
2. Diagnosed to be differently-abled and was found to be unable
a maximum of three (3) children beneficiaries
to benefit from any form of education
per household. In cases where the limit is
3. Death of the child
not maximized by the household before the
implementation of the high school expansion, The household can select a replacement from the existing household
the household may select during the validation roster and must submit supporting documents as basis for replacement
additional child beneficiaries from the of the children beneficiary for monitoring in education conditionalities.
remaining children in the roster. Children that
were previously monitored for education ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL CONDITIONALITIES?
conditionality and were aged out (those who In addition to the existing conditionalities, high school students are
turned 15 years old) can be reinstated in the required to obtain a passing General Weighted Average (GWA) prescribed
program. by the DepEd.
HOW LONG WILL THE CHILDREN BE COVERED BY THE PROGRAM? High school students must also be promoted to the next grade level in
Children beneficiaries are covered until the succeeding school year.
they exceed the age 18 or finish high
school, whichever comes first. PROGRAM COMPONENTS AND OTHER PROGRAM FEATURES
Those who will turn 19 years old within
WHAT ARE THE MAJOR COMPONENTS OF THE PROGRAM?
the school year (June 2) will still be
monitored until the end of the school Pantawid Pamilya established three major systems to organize its
year. implementation systematically, address issues, and effectively ensure
that the program objectives are met. These systems are the Compliance
Accordingly, the household will exit
Verification System (CVS), Beneficiary Update System (BUS) and the
from the program when all the children
Grievance Redress System (GRS).
beneficiaries graduate from high school
or reach the maximum age of eligibility. • CVS is a verification tool used to report compliance of the
beneficiaries to the conditionalities

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 • BUS records and updates the status or condition of the
beneficiaries. It captures, validates, records and reports changes
in the data of the beneficiary.
• The Payment System processes the payment of grants based on
the results of compliance verification. It monitors and ensures
the conduct of payment to the household beneficiaries of the
program.
• GRS captures and resolves complaints and queries about the
program, its implementation on the beneficiaries. Grievances may
be reported through a written report addressed to the nearest
DSWD Field Office or Social Media (Twitter: @4psreklamo,
Facebook: facebook.com/pantawid.grs, E-mail: 4psreklamo@
gmail.com). Grievances are addressed and solved at the national,
regional, provincial and municipal levels depending on the type
of complaint.
WHAT ARE THE OTHER FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM?
• Pantawid Pamilya is also implementing the Modified Conditional
Cash Transfer (MCCT). It is designed to reach out to Homeless
Street Families (HSF) who are definitely poor, more vulnerable and
disadvantaged that are not covered by the regular CCT.
• It aims to enable the HSF to overcome barriers that prevent them
from enjoying the government’s social protection support and
investments in their children’s human development.
• The MCCT HSF beneficiaries are expected to be transitioned to
regular Pantawid Pamilya after one year.
• MCCT also caters to Indigenous People
(IP) by providing indigenous cultural
communities in Geographically
Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas
(GIDAs) with equal opportunities to
access the services and benefits of
the Program.
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WHAT OTHER ASSISTANCE DO THE BENEFICIARIES RECEIVE?
The beneficiaries are also the priority recipients of the following:
• Free Philippine Health Insurance (PhilHealth) under the National
Health Insurance Program
• Assistance from the Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) of DSWD. SLP
is a community-based capacity building program that seeks to improve
the socio-economic status of program participants. It is implemented
through the Community-Driven Enterprise Development (CDED)
approach, which equips the program participants to actively contribute
to production and labor markets by making use of available resources
and accessible markets. Beneficiaries are engaged in social preparation
and capacity building workshops. After which, they are given the option
to take either a Micro-enterprise Development track or an Employment
Facilitation track.
a. Under the employment facilitation track, beneficiaries are
provided guaranteed employment by various public and
private partners such as the Trabahong Lansangan Program of
Department of Public Work and Highways (DPWH)
b. The micro-enterprise development track provides capital seed
fund to beneficiaries or link them with financial institutions
who can help them establish their own small-to medium-scale
businesses
WHAT IS THE STUDENT GRANTS-IN-AID PROGRAM FOR
POVERTY ALLEVIATION (SGPPA)?
• SGP-PA is a program of the national government
instituted by the Commission on Higher
Education (CHED) in partnership with DSWD, the
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE),
and State Universities and Colleges. It provides
higher education to poor households that will
give them opportunities for high value-added
occupations that will eventually help beneficiaries
have an improved quality of life.
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 • Beneficiaries of the program are
required to take up courses that are
among those identified based on the
national development plans manpower
demands for annual year 2014-2015.
These include courses related with
Information Technology (IT), Agriculture,
Teacher Education, Math and Science,
Engineering and Health Sciences.

• SGP-PA applicants must be a beneficiary of Pantawid Pamilya and
not more than 30 years. They must submit the necessary documents
and meet the criteria set by the program to avail the grant.

• A student-beneficiary is entitled to receive a maximum of sixty-
thousand pesos (60,000.00) grant per school year to pay for tuition
and other school fees, textbooks, board and lodging, clothing, health
and other educational expenses and support service to complete the
degree program.

KAYA KO ANG PAGBABAGO CAMPAIGN

Kaya Ko ang Pagbabago is an information and empowerment campaign
that aims to communicate the stories of change (pagbabago) in the
lives of the beneficiaries of the programs and services of DSWD. It also
aims to popularize the expansion of age coverage of Pantawid Pamilyang
Pilipino Program.

It empowers beneficiaries to have an improved well-being through the

convergence of the programs and services of DSWD and encourages key
stakeholders to support the government in bringing positive changes
and significant developments to the lives of the poor and the vulnerable.

Pagbabago stories are communicated to show the public that lives are
being changed through the different programs of the Department.

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Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program
For more information, you may visit us at Mahusay
Building, Department of Social Welfare and Development,
Constitution Hills, Batasan Complex, Quezon City. You may
also contact us at (02) 952-6889 / 951-6827 or check our
website at pantawid.dswd.gov.ph