16,000 bogus CCT beneficiaries purged
12/09/2010
As many as 16,000 so-called “ghost families” were taken out of the 700,000 beneficiaries the Deparment of Social Welfare and Development has identified last September, bringing the current number of potential conditional cash transfers (CCT) grantees down to 961,000 — 339,000 short of the DSWD’s supposed 1.3 million household target by yearend, Social Welfare Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman yesterday said.
She added these delisted families have failed to meet the government’s criteria for them to be included in the P21-billion worth CCT program of the Aquino administration.
“What we are doing is a continuing verification of the eligibility of sets 1 and 2 (families) because there have been complaints entering through the grievance system that there is what they call an inclusion and exclusion error. Those who should be in the list were not included on the list and those who were supposed to be excluded made it on the list,” Soliman explained when asked about the purging process of her department’s preparations on the implementation of the CCT program next year.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101209hed5.html
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