Barangay officers and barangay health and day care workers can now avail of the government’s cash assistance amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, the Department of Social Welfare and Development says.
The agency said it has coordinated with the Interior Department to add the barangay workers to the Social Amelioration Program since they earn below minimum wage.
“The so-called heavy-lifting job for the immediate response to the pandemic has been delegated to [barangay health workers] and Tanods as the frontliners in all community,” a memo signed by DSWD Secretary Rolando Bautista stated. “It is but just to give them reasonable leeway to be [entitled] in the programs of the government.”
The factors considered in including beneficiaries to the program are: if the person belongs to the poor or informal sector, if the person is at risk of not earning a living during the quarantine period and if the person is among the vulnerable sector, such as sub-minimum wage earners.
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