President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has approved the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) proposal to include pregnant and lactating women in the coverage of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
The expansion of the government‘s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program aims to “ensure the health of children in their first 1,000 days (from zero to two years old).”
The green light was given by Marcos during a sectoral meeting at the Malacañan Palace on Tuesday, June 11.
“On the first 1,000 days of a child’s life, bring the mother, the family into the system. That’s really good,” the President said in a press release issued by the Presidential Communications Office (PCO).
Under the current program, a 4Ps beneficiary-family receives a daycare and elementary grant of P300 per child per month for 10 months, conditional on their child’s school attendance; P500 per child per month for 10 months for junior high school with the same conditionality on their child’s school attendance and P700 per child per month for 10 months for senior high school with the same condition; and P750 per month per household for 12 months provided that their children aged 2-14 years old undergo growth development and monitoring; deworming and attend family development sessions.IMT
