1. What is the CCT program being implemented by the DSWD?

It is a rights-based and social development program of the national government which aims to contribute to poverty reduction; Provides conditional cash grants to poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education, particularly children aged 0-14; Invests in human capital to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty among poor households; and Patterned after the conditional cash transfer program in Latin American and African countries which have been proven successful as a poverty reduction and social development measure. 2. How were the poorest households identified? Per DSWD, as of 1 July 2011, the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) has identified 5,255,118 poor households out of the total 10,909,456 households enumerated. The number of poor households (5,255,118) were identified based on the Proxy Means Test (PMT) result.

3. Who among the poor households may avail of the CCT program? Those located in the municipalities and barangays selected for the program; With children aged 0-14 years old or have pregnant woman at the time of registration into the program (children aged 6-14 years old must be in school); Willing and able to commit to meet the conditions specified by the program; Those who passed the Eligibility Check Routine 2, which delineates those with regular income and subjects them to further validation. 4. What are the type of grants that can be availed by Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries? Health Grant: P500 per month per household or a total of P6,000 per year. Education Grant: P300 per month for ten (10) months or a total of P3,000 in a year for children 3-14 years old with a maximum of three (3) children per household. Each household beneficiary will receive the cash grants of P1,400 per month (health P500/month and education P900/month) for five (5) years as long as the conditions are complied. 5. What are the program conditionalities? For Education: Children 6-14 years old shall enroll in schools and attend at least 85% of the time; and Children 3-5 years old shall attend daycare/preschool program at least 85% of the time. For Health: Children 0-5 years old shall get regular preventive health checkups and vaccines; Pregnant women shall get pre-natal care, child birth is attended by skilled/health professional and mother shall get post-natal care in accordance with standard DOH protocol; and Children 6-14 years old must received de-worming pills twice a year.

For Family Development Sessions: Parent/guardians shall attend responsible parenting sessions, mothers classes on health and nutrition, parent effectiveness services and other topics fit for their needs and interest at least once a month. 6. How do the beneficiaries receive their grants? The Land Bank of the Philippines is the authorized bank to manage the disbursement of grants to the beneficiaries. With the limited Land Bank branches to cater to all the beneficiaries nationwide, the Land Bank has engaged the services of other financial institutions and telecommunication companies to help them disburse the grants to the beneficiaries. To date, beneficiaries may receive their grants thru Land Bank (cash cards, over-the-counter, off-site), G-cash remit and other rural banks. Beneficiaries with cash cards may also withdraw their grants in Cooperative Financial Institutions, First Consolidated Bank and M. Luillhier. 7. How is the compliance of the beneficiaries to their co-responsibilities being monitored? The program has set-up its own system to monitor the compliance of the beneficiaries. This is called the Compliance Verification System (CVS). The Municipal links in partnership with the teachers and health workers fill-up the CVS forms. The CVS will serve as the basis in computing the grant of each household 8. There were households who are included in the program but are not qualified. What will happen to them? Households will be delisted from the roster of beneficiaries. The program has established various mechanisms where beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries can file grievances such as inclusion errors. This can be done by texting 0918-912-2813, sending an e-mail to 4ps-pmo@dswd.gov.ph or by filling-up grievance forms.

9. Give them jobs or livelihood instead of providing them cash grants? The DSWD employs a convergence strategy which merges poverty-reduction programs of the department with Pantawid Pamilya as its backbone to ensure sustainability and to serve as an exit strategy. The sustainable livelihood program provides entrepreneurial capacity building for all Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries. The program offers two tracks of assistance namely: Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) and Guaranteed Employment. SLP will enable the Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries to establish and manage their own micro-enterprises through an entrepreneurial skills training program that includes the provision of non-collateral and interest-free loan amounting to P10,000 per family-beneficiary as seed capital. Status Update: Pantawid Pamilya is already on its fifth year of implementation. The program started in 2008 covering 160 cities and municipalities in 28 provinces in all 17 regions. As of 26 June 2013, the program is being implemented in all 1,627 cities and municipalities in 79 provinces in all 17 Regions. The registered households have reached 3,927,917 or 103.10% of the 3,809,769 Sets 1-6 target households for 2013. Of the total number of households, 3,927,917 are covered by the regular Pantawid Pamilya program while 95,593 are covered by Pantawid Modified Conditional Cash Transfer (MCCT). Of the 3,927,917 households, 41.85% or 1,643,975 are coming from Luzon, 37.75% or 1,482,649 from Mindanao and 20.40% or 801,293 are from Visayas.