The measure is now pending before the House committee on social services. READ:
P150,000 to individuals and/or families who are indigent, vulnerable, disadvantaged, or are in a crisis situation.
“The 1987 Constitution mandates the State to ‘free the people from poverty through policies that provide adequate social services.’ To uphold this, this bill seeks to institutionalize the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development,” their explanatory note of House Bill No. 1940 read.
Section 4 of the measure proposes that the AICS program provide integrated services to individuals and families in crisis or difficult situations in the form of psychosocial intervention or direct financial and material assistance, particularly transportation assistance, medical assistance, burial assistance, education assistance, food assistance, cash assistance, psychosocial intervention, or referral for other services.
Food assistance, cash assistance for other support services and provision of PPEs may also be requested under the bill.
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