DICT Finalizing App for Faster SAP Cash Aid Distribution

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is now finalizing the ReliefAgad application that will make the distribution of government cash assistance faster.

Once operational, this computer-based app will speed up the disbursement of cash assistance under the different Social Amelioration Programs (SAPs).

As of President Rodrigo Duterte’s weekly report, the department is working on completing the requirements needed for the ReliefAgad’s implementation which will help address the financial impact on Filipinos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cash Assistance under SAP

The following are the SAPs being implemented with the equivalent beneficiaries as of April 18, 2020.

• Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Program (AICS)
  • 4,054,360 beneficiaries
• Covid-19 Adjustment Measures Program (CAMP)
  • 237,653 beneficiaries (formal sector workers)
• CAMP Abot-Kamay at Pagtulong (AKAP)
  • Displaced OFWs
    • 86,054 applications
    • 3,245 approved
• Tulong Panghanapbuhay para sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) 
  • 178,549 beneficiaries (disadvantaged/displaced workers)
• DA’s Financial Subsidy for Rice Farmers 
  • 52,043 beneficiaries

Aside from the ReliefAgad app being developed by DICT, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) is also helping local government units to generate the list of citizens who are qualified beneficiaries of SAPs and other local programs of the government.

PIDS gives LGUs data gathered from their community-based monitoring system to help them identify who among their constituents are eligible to receive government aid.

 

SOURCE: Philippine News Agency