DSWD Cash Assistance — Full List of Offers under the AICS Program

Guide on DSWD Cash Assistance Offers You May Apply For

DSWD CASH ASSISTANCE – Here is a full list of the offers under the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) Program.

In the Philippines, one of the leading government agencies in providing cash aid offers to the Filipino people is the DSWD or the Department of Social Welfare and Development. It has branches across the nation thus its offers which you can find below are really accessible.

One of the programs launched by the DSWD is the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation or also called AICS. It was designed to help individuals who are dealing with medical situations, educational struggles, transportation needs, and a lot more and have no capacity to fully deal with their needs.

Below, you can find the different cash assistance offers as well as the eligibility criteria or coverage set by the social welfare department under each offer:

DSWD Medical Cash Assistance

The Department of Social Welfare and Development offers the DSWD Medical Cash Assistance which aims to help poor Filipinos who are caught by medical situations. The medical aid offer is open for the following:

• 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 Educational Cash Assistance

The government agency also wants to help the poor students with regards to their school expenses through the DSWD Educational Cash Assistance offer that is open for elementary, high school, and college students. It aims to give deserving students the chance to focus on their studies. It s 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 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

DSWD Solo Parent Cash Aid

The government agency has also set a lot of benefits under the DSWD Solo Parent Cash Aid offer. Who are qualified to apply for the offer? Here is its coverage:

• 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