The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) continues to celebrate the success of household-beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) who have achieved self-sufficiency level.

“We are very happy to announce that, as of April 30, a total of 860,471 members of 4Ps have exited the program after achieving an improved level of well-being. These households were tagged as self-sufficient based on the Social Welfare and Development Indicators (SWDI), making them eligible to exit on or before the completion of the seven-year maximum stay in the program,” Asst. Secretary Irene Dumlao, the agency’s spokesperson, said on Friday (May 9).

According to the DSWD spokesperson, the SWDI assessment is being used as the basis for the exit of the 4Ps household beneficiaries from the program through the National Advisory Council (NAC) Resolution No. 1 series of 2023, and was operationalized by the DSWD through the issuance of Memorandum Circular No. 19 series of 2023.

The households that were classified as self-sufficient are those capable of meeting their basic needs, earning a stable income through a permanent job or small business, are able to send their children to school, and are equipped to prevent their households from falling back into poverty.

“In June, we are already approaching another milestone as the 4Ps celebrates its sixth anniversary of institutionalization. We are proud of the program’s achievements and our celebration will be more meaningful because of our 4Ps beneficiaries who continue to make good use of the program’s incentives to uplift the condition of their families through the education and health of their children,” the DSWD spokesperson said.

The 4Ps, which was launched in 2008 and institutionalized in 2019 through Republic Act No. 11310 or the 4Ps Act, provides cash grants to more than 4 million households whose children are given subsidies to finish elementary and senior high school and supported with health and nutrition grants. #