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

It is a rights-based and social development program of the

natonal government which aims to contribute to poverty
reducton;
Provides conditonal cash grants to poor households to improve
their health, nutriton and educaton, partcularly children aged
0-14;
Invests in human capital to break the intergeneratonal cycle of
poverty among poor households; and
Paterned afer the conditonal cash transfer program in
Latn American and African countries which have been proven
successful as a poverty reducton and social development
measure.
2. How were the poorest households identfed?
Per DSWD, as of 1 July 2011, the Natonal Household Targetng
System for Poverty Reducton (NHTS-PR) has identfed 5,255,118
poor households out of the total 10,909,456 households
enumerated.
The number of poor households (5,255,118) were identfed
based on the Proxy Means Test (PMT) result.
3. Who among the poor households may avail of the CCT program?
Those located in the municipalites and barangays selected for
the program;
With children aged 0-14 years old or have pregnant woman at
the tme of registraton into the program (children aged 6-14
years old must be in school);
Willing and able to commit to meet the conditons specifed by
the program;
Those who passed the Eligibility Check Routne 2, which
delineates those with regular income and subjects them to
further validaton.
4. What are the type of grants that can be availed by Pantawid
Pamilya benefciaries?
Health Grant: P500 per month per household or a total of
P6,000 per year.
Educaton 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 benefciary will receive the cash grants of P1,400
per month (health P500/month and educaton P900/month)
for fve (5) years as long as the conditons are complied.
5. What are the program conditonalites?
For Educaton:
Children 6-14 years old shall enroll in schools and atend at least
85% of the tme; and
Children 3-5 years old shall atend daycare/preschool program at
least 85% of the tme.
For Health:
Children 0-5 years old shall get regular preventve health check-
ups and vaccines;
Pregnant women shall get pre-natal care, child birth is atended
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 atend responsible parentng sessions,
mothers classes on health and nutriton, parent efectveness
services and other topics ft for their needs and interest at least
once a month.
6. How do the benefciaries receive their grants?
The Land Bank of the Philippines is the authorized bank to manage
the disbursement of grants to the benefciaries.
With the limited Land Bank branches to cater to all the
benefciaries natonwide, the Land Bank has engaged the services
of other fnancial insttutons and telecommunicaton companies
to help them disburse the grants to the benefciaries.
To date, benefciaries may receive their grants thru Land Bank
(cash cards, over-the-counter, of-site), G-cash remit and other
rural banks.
Benefciaries with cash cards may also withdraw their grants in
Cooperatve Financial Insttutons, First Consolidated Bank and
M. Luillhier.
7. How is the compliance of the benefciaries to their co-responsibilites
being monitored?
The program has set-up its own system to monitor the compliance
of the benefciaries. This is called the Compliance Verifcaton
System (CVS).
The Municipal links in partnership with the teachers and health
workers fll-up the CVS forms.
The CVS will serve as the basis in computng the grant of each
household
8. There were households who are included in the program but are not
qualifed. What will happen to them?
Households will be delisted from the roster of benefciaries.
The program has established various mechanisms where
benefciaries and non-benefciaries can fle grievances such as
inclusion errors. This can be done by textng 0918-912-2813,
sending an e-mail to 4ps-pmo@dswd.gov.ph or by flling-up
grievance forms.

9. Give them jobs or livelihood instead of providing them cash grants?
The DSWD employs a convergence strategy which merges
poverty-reducton 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 benefciaries. The
program ofers two tracks of assistance namely: Sustainable
Livelihood Program (SLP) and Guaranteed Employment.
SLP will enable the Pantawid Pamilya benefciaries 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 amountng to
P10,000 per family-benefciary as seed capital.

Status Update:
Pantawid Pamilya is already on its ffh year
of implementaton. The program started in
2008 covering 160 cites and municipalites in
28 provinces in all 17 regions. As of 26 June
2013, the program is being implemented in all
1,627 cites and municipalites 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 Modifed Conditonal 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.