Guide on DSWD Cash Assistance Offers You May Apply For
DSWD CASH ASSISTANCE – Here is a full list of the offers under the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) Program.
Truth be told that a lot of household in the Philippines have a monthly budget that is either just enough for the expenses or even insufficient to cover everything that should be paid for. Meanwhile, there are state-run entities that Filipinos may turn to — one of them is the Department of Social Welfare and Development or DSWD.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development or more popularly called DSWD is in the service of the Filipino people for several decades now since 1915 when it was first called as the Public Welfare Board. Through the years, the department kept on expanding its offers.
The social welfare department now has the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation or also called AICS. The said program was crafted to help the individuals who are in need of financial assistance due to certain situations like medical emergencies. There is a variety of DSWD cash assistance offers under the program.
Here are the different DSWD cash assistance offers under the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) Program:
DSWD Educational Cash Assistance
One of the offers under the AICS program is the DSWD Education Cash Assistance offer. It aims to help the poor but deserving students in their financial needs. The DSWD Educational Cash Assistance is open for the following:
- breadwinners or Filipino students who take the responsibility of supporting their own studies
- working students or those who have to take part-time jobs so they can support their financial needs
- children of solo parents
- those who are living without a family or relatives or students who do not have to a place to call home
- children of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)
- children of parents who have no means of earning to support the studies of their children
- children of persons with disabilities or PWDs
DSWD Medical Cash Assistance
The social welfare department also has the DSWD Medical Cash Assistance offer which was designed to help poor Filipinos who are faced with medical situations. Here is the coverage under the cash aid offer:
- poor families and individuals in the informal sector listed on DSWD Listahan
- workers under government contracts
- those who have no financial capacity to pay for their medical expenses
- patients of cancer and other chronic illnesses like tuberculosis, heart diseas, stroke, leprosy, and kidney failure
- patients confined in a mental institution due to a mental illness including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and major depressive disorder
- victims of natural disasters like floods, typhoons, landslides, and earthquakes
- disabled individuals for the cases of hospitalization, medication, surgery, and therapy
DSWD Solo Parent Cash Aid
The DSWD also has several benefits for Filipinos who are both father and mother to their children under the DSWD Solo Parent Cash Aid offer. It is open for the following:
- families of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who have lived outside the country for more than 12 years straight and are either low-skilled or semi-skilled
- unmarried father or mother who chose to raise their child independently without entering marriage
- solo parents who are separated, divorced, or with annulled marriages with a unique co-parenting setup but shoulders most of the responsibilities in rearing the child
- a woman who did not intend her pregnancy but chose to nurture and raise the child
- a person left alone with the responsibility of parenting due to the death of a spouse, legal separation, physical or mental incapacity of the spouse, or the spouse is detained or serving a sentence for a criminal conviction
- any additional person who look after a child or children as parents
- any member of the family who assumed the role as the head of the family after the parents or single parents vanished
DSWD Transportation Cash Assistance
Also one of the cash assistance offers is the Transportation Assistance offer. Individuals who passed the DSWD Transportation Cash Aid requirements and deal with any of the following situations may apply for the offer:
- individuals displaced by natural disasters
- victims of human trafficking
- elderly
- physically disabled individuals
- pregnant women
- pickpocket victims
- new mothers
- transport of the deceased