DSWD enrolls 2,917 new 4Ps beneficiaries in Calabarzon

LUCENA CITY — A total of 2,917 indigent families across the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon) region have been enrolled as new beneficiaries of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Monday.

In a report posted on its Facebook page, DSWD Region IV-A said the newly enrolled beneficiaries were validated in the first quarter of the year from over 11,000 families identified as poor or near-poor through the Philippine Statistics Authority’s Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) database.

The agency said it has begun using the CBMS as the official basis for identifying families eligible for enrollment in the 4Ps this year.

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Established under Republic Act No. 11310, the 4Ps is the government’s flagship conditional cash transfer program that provides financial assistance to low-income households to help support children’s education, health, and nutrition.

Under the ongoing registration process, DSWD social workers use CBMS data to identify potential beneficiaries.

Families must also be registered with the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) before they can be officially enrolled in the program, a requirement intended to improve the efficiency and speed of government assistance distribution.

The CBMS, which collects, processes, and validates socioeconomic data for poverty assessment, replaced the DSWD’s “Listahanan” database in 2024 and now serves as the government’s official reference for identifying eligible beneficiaries.

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The DSWD said the newly enrolled families will begin receiving conditional cash grants once they become active beneficiaries and comply with the program’s requirements.

These include ensuring that children maintain at least 85 percent monthly school attendance, bringing children aged five years and below and pregnant women for regular health checkups, and attending monthly Family Development Sessions.

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The agency added that beneficiaries will also be linked to other government interventions, including skills training, livelihood opportunities, scholarship programs, and values-formation activities to help improve their families’ quality of life.

The DSWD said more families are expected to be added to the program as Field Office IV-A continues validating more than 27,000 families across the region.

Meanwhile, the proposed Expanded 4Ps Bill (House Bill No. 8647), which seeks to strengthen the implementation of the conditional cash transfer program, was approved on third and final reading by the House of Representatives in May.

The measure proposes increasing the monthly education grants for children of 4Ps beneficiaries from P300 to P500 for daycare and elementary pupils, from P500 to P700 for junior high school students, and from P700 to P900 for senior high school students, for up to 10 months each year.

It also seeks to increase the monthly health grant from P750 to P1,800 for up to 12 months annually.

In addition, children with disabilities would receive an additional P400 per month for higher medical and care needs, and a Food and Nutrition Cash Grant of P1,100 per month for up to 12 months per year would also be introduced.

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The bill likewise seeks to institutionalize the First 1,000 Days (F1KD) cash grant, which provides P400 a month for children from birth to two years old./coa