Police and military officers will lead the distribution of the second tranche of the COVID-19 cash aid, instead of LGUs
geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas,” Bautista reported during the taped meeting with the President on Tuesday night.
Also during the same meeting, Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año said the first wave of the distribution of COVID-19 emergency subsidy is 97 percent complete. The government started the distribution of the COVID-19 cash aid last March 28, which should have been completed by April 30.
Many LGUs struggled to completely give the aid to their constituents, citing problems like incomplete or inaccurate list of target beneficiaries and late distribution of social amelioration forms.
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