Guide on DSWD Funeral Cash Aid Requirements 2025 for Application
DSWD FUNERAL CASH AID REQUIREMENTS 2025 – Here are the documents required in applying for the social welfare department’s offer.
Truth be told that even death nowadays come with a huge cost financially — the price of the casket, the expenses for the funeral arrangements, the expenses for the wake, and a lot more. Giving a deceased a decent wake requires thousands of money which not everyone may fully afford most especially amidst a heavy emotional burden over the loss of a loved one. When the inevitable happens, there are entities that you may turn to.
One of the most popular state entities in the Philippines is the Department of Social Welfare and Development or more popularly known as DSWD. It has several cash assistance offers that target the Filipinos most especially those who are financially under privileged.
The offers of the state entity do not only include the DSWD Student Cash Assistance but as well as the DSWD Funeral Cash Aid. It aims to help poor families who lost their loved ones in providing their deceased family member with a decent wake through a financial aid.
The DSWD Funeral Cash Aid offer is under the AICS Program of the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation program of the social welfare department. If the inevitable happens and you want to seek for the said offer, it is important to prepare the requirements set by the state entity for application.
The DSWD Funeral Cash Aid requirements include both eligibility criteria pertaining to the deceased as well as documentary requirements that should be prepared and submitted by the deceased person’s survivor.
To qualify, the deceased must be a Filipino citizen and the family should be able to submit the documents required for application. Here are the documents needed in availing for the offer of the social welfare department:
- valid identification document (ID)
- Death Certificate with or without a civil registry number
- Certificate from any of the following:
- hospital or doctor
- Imam for the Moros
- Tribal Chieftain or head of the Indigenous Peoples
- Funeral Contract
- Promissory Note or Certificate of Balance if there is an existing balance in the contracted funeral home
- Transfer Permit in case the deceased need to be transferred to another province
- Invoice or Billing Statement (Statement of Account)
- Barangay Certificate, outlining family expenses related to the casket
- family’s gross income not surpassing the poverty threshold set by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)
In case the social welfare department is set to extend a financial assistance that exceeds Php 10,000, the DSWD Funeral Cash Aid requirements should include Social Case Study Report (SCSR) or Case Summary. The SCSR is a document from the social welfare department which is a comprehensive assessment of the economic, psychological, and social aspects of the person/people seeking for assistance.
Another offer of the social welfare department is the DSWD Medical Cash Assistance.