DSWD delists 71,000 names from 4Ps list of beneficiaries
By Rachelle M. Nessia
DUMAGUETE CITY, Nov. 14 (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) recently delisted 71,000 names from their nationwide roster of beneficiaries under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
DSWD Sec. Dinky Soliman disclosed that the beneficiaries they dropped from said list were found to be ineligible to receive the conditional cash grants issued under the 4Ps program.
Of the total delisted, three are from Negros Oriental; one is from Siaton town and two from Bayawan City.
“After validation, these people were found to have a stable source of income,” said Soliman.
Beneficiaries for the program are the “poorest of the poor” households culled from the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR).
Households eligible to benefit from 4Ps are those classified as poor based on the NHTS-PR at the time of assessment, have children 0-14 years old and/or have a pregnant woman at the time of assessment, and those that agree to meet conditions specified in the program.
The DSWD chief, in a press conference held Nov. 12 in Dumaguete City, said the department continues to conduct a thorough validation process to identify beneficiaries who must be delisted from the program.
She said that after four years of implementing 4Ps, the standard of living of the beneficiaries have improved, from their living conditions to the way they dress.
“Sometimes, when the COA (Commission on Audit) staff go to their houses to assess them, or when the media interviews them, they will notice that their houses have improved, and they have better clothes and they immediately ask why DSWD is helping these people when they look like they can afford. But of course, we have been helping them for several years already so we should expect them to be in better living conditions or else we’re not achieving our goals,” Soliman explained.
Part of what the 4Ps program is doing is to help give the beneficiaries dignity, and we should not take that away from them, she added.
4Ps is a human investment program spearheaded by DSWD which provides conditional cash grants to household beneficiaries for their children’s education and health needs.
Soliman was in Dumaguete City to lead the signing of a memorandum of agreement for the additional beneficiairies in Sibulan and Amlan towns. (RMN/PIA Negros Oriental)
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Over 4,000 jobs available during two-day job fair in NegOr
By Rachelle M. Nessia
DUMAGUETE CITY, Nov 14 (PIA) -- More than 4,000 job opportunities for overseas and local employment will be offered during a two-day recruitment activity on November 28 and 29 at the Lamberto Macias Sports and Cultural Center, Dumaguete City.
The two-day job fair is open to all job seekers from around Negros Oriental, Provincial Public Employment Services Office (PESO) focal person Jose Ramon Benedicto said.
Benedicto said that during the job fair, Trioceanic Manning and Shipping Inc. seeks to hire 4,000 fishermen from the province to work in accredited Chinese vessels.
“These vessels are bound for Argentina, Japan, Cape Mauritius, Fiji Island, and other neighboring Asian countries,” he said.
Qualified to apply are males aged 18 to 30-years-old who have completed elementary or high school levels and are physically fit to work.
Interested applicants are required to bring the following documents: bio-data with recent 2x2 ID photo, NSO-authenticated birth certificate, and latest NBI clearance.
Trioceanic will also hold another recruitment activity on Nov. 30 at the Siaton municipal gymnasium, Benedicto said.
Local employers participating in the Nov. 28 and 29 jobs fair are Qualfon Dumaguete, Robinson’s Place Dumaguete, and Island Merchants Corp. which is the distributor of Nestle Philippines in Negros island.
Also joining the job fair is the Simon Group of Companies based in Cebu which is set to hire workers for local jobs in engineering fields such as civil, chemical, and mechanical engineering.
These companies seek graduates of Commerce, Psychology, Human Resource Management, Business Management, Criminology, Marine Engineering, Science Vet Medicine, Computer Accounting, Midwifery, Nursing Aide, Associate Healthcare Course, English majors, Mass Communication, Nursing, and other four-year courses.
Benedicto said the job fair will help the provincial government address local unemployment through the “Magdegamo Equals Trabaho” program.
For more details on the job fair, applicants may contact Benedicto at the Provincial PESO at telephone no. 225-1111 loc. 396 or 0925-275-9950. (RMN-PIA7, Negros Oriental)