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A bill seeking to provide a P60,000-per-academic-year allowance to Filipino families for them to have at least one college graduate has been filed in the House of Representatives. (MARK BALMORES / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) House Bill (HB) No. 4523 or the “One Family, One Graduate” bill was
MANILA - The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reported that the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) consistently helps beneficiaries become self-sufficient and eventually be delisted from the poverty alleviation program. Data showed that in 2019, some 300,000 4Ps households were identified as self-sufficient, a little less than the 387,577 delisted in 2018. Currently, the program supports more than 800,000 families, classified as poor and near-poor based on the Standardized Targeting System and the poverty threshold issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority. Since ...