{"id":19959,"date":"2014-07-24T08:27:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T00:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=19959"},"modified":"2025-01-29T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:10:10","slug":"74117-students-from-eastern-visayas-to-avail-of-cct-expansion-under-pnoy-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/24\/74117-students-from-eastern-visayas-to-avail-of-cct-expansion-under-pnoy-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"74,117 students from Eastern Visayas to avail of CCT expansion under PNoy administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_14796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14796\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/child-poverty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14796\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/child-poverty-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Street children in Cebu. \/ Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/child-poverty-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/child-poverty.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Street children in Cebu. \/ Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">TACLOBAN CITY &#8212; Some 74,117 students from Eastern Visayas stand to benefit from the expansion of the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program (4Ps) or the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program based on the compliance verification done by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The expansion of the government\u2019s flagship poverty alleviation already include in its coverage children 15-18 years old to help them finish secondary education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Prior the expansion, the program covers only households with children whose ages range from 0-14 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Of the target recipients, the highest number is from Leyte province with 27,978 and Western Samar with 16,057.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">On the other hand, Biliran has 2,261 recipients; Eastern Samar, 8,625; Northern Samar, 13,650 and Southern Leyte, 5, 546.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy isotretinoin online <a href=\"https:\/\/bondchc.com\/language\/overrides\/html\/isotretinoin.html\">https:\/\/bondchc.com\/language\/overrides\/html\/isotretinoin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Michelle Calzado, program information officer in Eastern Visayas, said that payout for the initial beneficiaries belonging to Set 7 of the program has already started. The payout covers the first quarter of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Each recipient gets a monthly differential of P200 because they have already been released P300 per month for their educational grant.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy wellbutrin online <a href=\"https:\/\/bondchc.com\/language\/overrides\/html\/wellbutrin.html\">https:\/\/bondchc.com\/language\/overrides\/html\/wellbutrin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Calzado said that education assistance for high school students was increased to P500.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Meanwhile, some 254,997 households in the region have benefited from the CCT since the administration of President Benigno S.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy colchicine online <a href=\"https:\/\/bondchc.com\/language\/overrides\/html\/colchicine.html\">https:\/\/bondchc.com\/language\/overrides\/html\/colchicine.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Aquino III initiated the expansion of coverage to cover more indigent families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Households served include 6,935 in Biliran; 28,829 in Eastern Samar; 100,510 in Leyte; 43,934 in Northern Samar; 56,301 in Western Samar and 18,488 in Southern Leyte.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">At the start of July this year, the program already covered 3,590 villages in the region composed of 125 villages in Biliran; 464 in Eastern Samar; 1,278 in Leyte; 501 in Northern Samar; 815 in Western Samar and 407 in Southern Leyte.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TACLOBAN CITY &#8212; Some 74,117 students from Eastern Visayas stand to benefit from the expansion of the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[6913],"class_list":["post-19959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-cct-benificiaries","mauthors-perla-g-lena","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286659,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19959\/revisions\/286659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}