Guide on DSWD Transportation Cash Aid Offer Features
DSWD Transportation Cash Aid is up for many Filipinos who are in need of assistance to be somewhere for an important or urgent matter.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development, more popularly called DSWD, is one of the government agencies with several cash assistance offers. However, undeniably, there are offers that are more popular than the others.
One of the less popular cash aid offers is the DSWD Transportation Cash Aid. It is also under the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation or the AICS program and it has a wide coverage. It is open for the following:
- individuals facing the sudden death of a family member
- need to attend emergency concerns such as death, care, or other emergency or critical situations of family members
- loss of a job or other source of income
- strandees affected by a natural calamity
- assistance of the expenses to enable the recipient to return to his/her/their home provinces in another place
- individuals returning to their hometowns
- victims of illegal recruitment
- exposure to health and safety risks and other environmental hazards in their current area of residence
- people requiring travel for medical care
- pregnant women
- elderly or persons with disability
The Department of Social Welfare and Development provides different kinds of transportation assistance. The following cash assistance offer may be granted by the social welfare department to qualified individuals:
- Transportation Assistance for Medical Purposes
- Transportation Assistance for Returning to Hometowns
- Emergency Transportation Assistance
- Transportation Aid for Victims of Crimes
- Legal Assistance Transportation Support
With regards to the amount of the DSWD Transportation Cash Aid, it may vary depending on a case-to-case basis as well as the point of origin and the destination of the beneficiary. There are some documents that must be submitted in applying for the cash assistance offer.
