Guide on DSWD Solo Parent Cash Assistance Qualifications for Application
DSWD SOLO PARENT CASH ASSSISTANCE – Here is a guide on who are qualified to apply for this financial assistance offer of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
Like in several other countries, in the Philippines, there are countless solo parents or fathers and mothers who take on both the roles of being the head of the family and the manager of the household. Truth be told that the challenge in different aspects is much bigger as only one person is taking the roles of both parents.
To help the solo parents in the Philippines, the Department of Social Welfare and Development crafted the DSWD Solo Parent Cash Assistance offer. Here are the qualifications set under the cash aid offer:
- 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
Actually, the DSWD Solo Parent Cash Assistance is not only designed to provide monetary assistance to solo parents who need some financial aid. There are also several other benefits for the recipients of the cash aid.