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He said the department will particularly strengthen the 4Ps program as well as livelihood interventions under the Sustainable Livelihood Program and KALAHI-CIDSS.
“Once they graduate from 4Ps, they’re now called non-poor. They will be in the near-poor line, or families making P15,000 to P18,000 supposedly. we saw during the COVID pandemic that one shock – a death in the family, a lockdown, or a natural disaster – will slip them back to poverty,” he said. “So now we’re about to share P16 billion – if I’m not mistaken – for our 4Ps graduates as well as our near-poor,” he said.The social welfare chief was scrutinized by some CA members on the policy programs and reforms of the department and the status of his case before the Ombudsman regarding housing cooperatives when he was still the mayor of Valenzuela City, among others.
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