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‘Ghost families’ exorcised from CCT —Palace By Aytch S. de la Cruz 10/31/2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010

‘Ghost families’ exorcised from CCT —Palace

By Aytch S. de la Cruz 10/31/2010

The Palace claimed yesterday that the Aquino administration had exorcised the controversial P21-billion conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of so-called ghost-family recipients and that beneficiaries in the program are guaranteed to be among the poorest of the Filipino poor while expressing confidence yesterday Social Welfare Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman, who will implement the program, will hurdle the confirmation process in the powerful Commission on Appointments (CA).

Soliman has lately been under siege from critics who are questioning her ability to undertake the expensive program effectively and are accusing her of involvement in the P10-billion Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificate (PEACe) bonds scam.

Members of the House of Representatives expressed fears that the huge CCT funds will not go to target beneficiaries because of the reported lack of safeguards from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in effectively implementing the program.

Legislators had said a similar program under the previous administration, which introduced the cash transfer concept, was found to be packed with ghost beneficiaries and they expressed worries that it will recur in the CCT especially with Soliman at the DSWD’s helm..... MORE

SourceThe Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101031hed4.html

1 comment

Anonymous said...

So says the palace. Do you want to risk all that money on Stinky Dinky?

She enjoyed being GMA's DSWD secretary. The white highliner in her hair I mistook for a skunk. I never liked her and Deles then, I still do not even today.

Do not trust them.

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