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(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) made this clarification in a statement late Sunday afternoon amid the surge of social media posts regarding the supposed implementation of a third round or tranche of SAP. “There is an ongoing payout for the Emergency Subsidy Program (ESP) which is a provision of Bayanihan to Recover as One Act or Bayanihan 2,” DSWD Social Marketing Service Director Irene Dumlao said. However, she noted that the ESP payout is neither SAP nor a continuation of SAP 1 and 2 since “it has a different set of beneficiaries.�...

Published December 19, 2020, 7:33 PM An anti-corruption group has asked the House of Representatives to impose disciplinary sanctions against two former officials of the chamber for allegedly using their position in “harassing and intimidating” local politicians through the conduct of congressional inquiries. In a three-page complaint filed Thursday, Dec. 17, before the House Committee on Ethics, the Crimes and Corruption Watch Inc. (CCWI) accused Reps. Luis Raymund “Lray” Villafuerte (NP, Camarines Sur) and Jose Antonio Sy-Alvarado (NUP, Bulacan) of committing “unethical” practic...

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte signs into law the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act (Bayanihan 2) during a ceremony at the Malago Clubhouse in Malacañang on September 11, 2020. KING RODRIGUEZ/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte has approved PHP3.52 billion in additional funding to register 20 million more individuals in the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) by the end of 2021, Malacañang said Wednesday. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the 20 million more people to be registered under PhilSys would be on top of the government’s 50-million target. “Pr...

1 of 4 PHILIPPINE Statistics Authority enumerators taking pictures of pre-registrant for verification purposes at Cagayan, Olongapo City and Tuguegarao. PHILIPPINE Statistics Authority enumerators taking pictures of pre-registrant for verification purposes at Cagayan, Olongapo City and Tuguegarao. PHILIPPINE Statistics Authority enumerators taking pictures of pre-registrant for verification purposes at Cagayan, Olongapo City and Tuguegarao. By Reporter REYNALDO L. ANGARA, 70, a barangay chairman in Tondo, Manila, confessed to struggling with distributing Social Amelioration Program (SAP) cas...

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) (MANILA BULLETIN) Over 142,000 low-income families have received their entitled emergency subsidies,  worth more than P931 million,  the DSWD said.  “As of Dec. 17, there are 142,058 beneficiaries who received their emergency subsidy under Bayanihan 2,” it said in a statement.  Of the number,  11,480 recipients are from areas under granular lockdown, while 130,578 are additional beneficiaries or those who did not receive Social Amelioration Program (SAP)  1 and 2 subsidies. “The total subsidy distributed to the qualified benefi...