MANILA, Philippines — Only 17 percent of the 22.9 million target beneficiaries of the P1,000 aid for people in areas under an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) have received the assistance, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said.
According to DSWD, reports from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) showed that 3.999 million beneficiaries have already received the P1,000 per head assistance — a huge bulk of which are Metro Manila residents with 2.944 million.
The assistance was initiated by the government as the law requires areas under ECQ — the most stringent lockdown measure available — to compensate affected residents. An …
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