Filipinos received an average of more than P6,000 from the government since the COVID-19 crisis began, with four sources listed as the most mentioned, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed.
In a recent survey, SWS found out that 72 percent of Filipinos received cash aid from the government since the start of the COVID-19 crisis.
Other sources mentioned were social amelioration programs from unspecified government institutions at 6 percent, Social Security System at 4 percent, the Department of Labor and Employment at 2 percent, aid for senior citizens and persons with disability at 1 percent, and the Department of Agriculture at 1 percent, and others at 2 percent.
SWS said that since the start of the crisis, families in Metro Manila received an average amount of P8,354, followed by Balance Luzon with average of P6,701, the Visayas with an average of P5,988, and Mindanao with an average of P5,441. On the other hand, the LGUs were the most mentioned sources in Metro Manila at 43 percent, while the DSWD and the DSWD’s SAP were equally most mentioned in Balance Luzon at 32 percent each. SWS previously mentioned in its survey on hunger that the lower the socio-economic status and lower educational attainment, the more likely it is that hunger had been experienced by the respondents.
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