Food stamp program, mas marami pang benepisyaryo ang matutulungan sa susunod na taon | Saksi
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Transcript
00:00 More beneficiaries are expected to be helped by the food stamp program declared by the government's flagship program.
00:08 Witness, Nico Juae.
00:10 Rowena is lucky if she can eat three times a day.
00:19 Usually, it's just two times, lunch and dinner.
00:23 Lunch is already past because there's nothing. I just adjust it so I can eat lunch and dinner.
00:33 Rowena needs to earn 8,000 pesos a month as a server in a cafeteria.
00:40 She has four children who are studying.
00:42 400 pesos a day is like nothing, just a drop.
00:47 When the children are studying, there's nothing to eat, to buy electricity, almost nothing.
00:55 MJ is also an all-around staff in a cafeteria.
00:58 She earns 350 pesos a day.
01:01 If she joins, she can earn 8,000 pesos a month.
01:04 She sends 1,500 pesos to her family in Apayaw.
01:09 I earn enough. I divide it every Tuesday.
01:15 Like Rowena and MJ, who earn less than 8,000 pesos a month,
01:20 the government's food stamp program, which was declared by the government's flagship program under Executive Order No. 44, is expected to help them.
01:28 For the families who can be counted, they can receive assistance of P3,000 per month using EBT or electronic benefit transfer cards.
01:37 In August, EBT cards were distributed to the beneficiaries.
01:42 We are already implementing the P300,000 scale-up and that will require P6 billion in budget for next year.
01:50 There's a P1.9 billion allocation from the 2024 General Appropriations Act.
01:57 P4.1 billion is needed, where the PBM is looking for fund sources for that.
02:03 For GMA Integrated News, Nik Waje, your witness.
02:07 [Music]