MANILA, Philippines — The distribution of financial aid to those affected by the lockdown in the so-called National Capital Region Plus had a “slow start,” the Secretary Rolando Bautista of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary admitted Monday.
As of April 11, merely 8% of the funds allotted for the program has been disbursed, Bautista said during the pre-recorded meeting of the members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infections Diseases (IATF) with President Rodrigo Duterte.
That’s roughly 1.7 million of the more than 22.9 million beneficiaries in NCR Plus — which is composed of Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Rizal, and Bulacan.
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