Tanauan folks get their share of 4Ps cash grants

By Provincial Media Relations Center
April 14, 2012

TACLOBAN CITY  –  More than two-thousand more beneficiaries were given their conditional cash grants under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Tanauan, Leyte.

Tanauan, in Leyte’s first district, is the newest addition to the list of municipalities in Leyte now enrolled under the 4Ps conditional cash transfer.

Leyte Governor Carlos Jericho Petilla led the launching of the program and the ceremonial distribution of the cash grants which was personally brought by bank personnel of the Land Bank of the Philippines.

Gov. Petilla again urged the newly enrolled beneficiaries to ensure continuous inclusion in this pro-poor, mass based program of the national government by following the conditionalities by which the grant was given.

He told beneficiaries that the government is spending billions of pesos for this program that it needs to be fully complied with.

“The government is spending a lot for 4Ps thus we would like to make sure that the recipients are really helped by the cash grants and deserve to be placed under such social pension,” Gov. Petilla said.

The governor likewise shared that 4Ps beneficiaries would also be given priority health insurance sponsored by the provincial government of Leyte.

“We are giving this priority for as long as you are under the program. This is in line with the national government’s efforts to converge all its social and pro-poor programs,” Gov. Petilla said.

Under the 4Ps program, beneficiaries receive P500 every month for health and nutrition and P300 monthly per child aged 14 years old and below, to a maximum of three children, for educational expenses as long as they comply with the conditions that include availing of health services for their children, pre and post natal care for pregnant household member, sending their children to school and attending family development sessions.