Guide on DSWD Transportation Cash Assistance Offer for Filipinos
DSWD TRANSPORTATION CASH ASSISTANCE – Here is a guide on this unique offer of the social welfare department under the AICS program.
Many of the cash aid offers that the Department of Social Welfare and Development offers is under the AICS or the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation. The most popular offers are undeniably the Medical and Educational Cash Assistance offers.
However, what is also good to know is that the social welfare department also offers a DSWD Transportation Cash Assistance. It aims to help the poor Filipinos who have no capacity to pay for their travel get to another place for a very urgent and important matter.
The social welfare department has made clear the situations that are qualified under its Transportation Assistance offer. It is open for the following cases:
- seeking medical intervention
- need to attend emergency concerns such as death, care, or other emergency or critical situations of family members
- victims of natural disasters and illegal recruitment cases
- the family decided to resettle to the identified rural provinces
- loss of a job or other source of income
- unsafe dwelling places
- exposure to health and safety risks and other environmental hazards in their current area of residence
- assistance for the purchase or payment of transport (air/sea/land) tickets
- assistance of the expenses to enable the recipient to return to his/her/their home provinces in another place
- situations where there’s need for immediate presence in another place like attendance to a court hearing, rescue of a relative, and other cases
According to DSWD, the cash assistance that will be extended for the transportation can be used “with the cost of the public transportation, fuel, or maintenance costs” for a private vehicle as well.
With regards to the amount that you may get under the DSWD Transportation Cash Assistance offer, it varies depending on the assessment of the DSWD officer. It is set to be the amount that is enough to cover the travel expenses of the beneficiary.
The cash assistance may range up to Php 10,000 for travels that will take a day and more than Php 10,000 for those that will take three (3) to five (5) days.
