FAMILY beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) are clamoring for an expansion of the grant that would also cover high school students.
This was bared by Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Soliman after conducting a series of consultation dialogues with different stakeholders nationwide.
During her recent visit toi this city, Soliman said this is the common feedback received by the agency from the beneficiaries. This early, the official cannot personally address the feedback as this would need Cabinet and Presidential approval.
At present, the conditional cash grants are given to extremely poor households to improve the health, nutrition and education of children aged 0-14.
“ If the government commits to support these children beneficiaries until high school, that would require us to raise an additional budget for the program”, she said.
She is favors the consolidation of data and funding between local government units and the Department of Education to make sure that these 4Ps beneficiaries really finish high school.[PIA 11/MAI GEVERA-MACAPAGAT]
