BAGUIO CITY: The government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), otherwise known as the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program is set to benefit 2,226 more poor households in this city with its set-6 expansion this 2013.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development – Cordillera (DSWD-CAR), in coordination with the City Social Welfare and Development Office, conducted recently at the Baguio Convention Center a Community Assembly for the family beneficiaries of the set-6 expansion of the CCT program here.

DSWD-CAR CCT Program Regional Focal Person Irene Bungay said that with the special validation which they have conducted in partnership with the city social workers in the 128 barangays in Baguio, these 2,226 household beneficiaries were identified and certified as indigent families that are eligible for registration to the program.

She explained during the community assembly the registration and validation for the CCT program, registration to the Land Bank of the Philippines for the releasing of the program’s cash grants and the signing of oath commitment (which will serve as their contract in complying for the conditions that they must do under the program), as well as issuance of their CCT ID cards.

With the set-6 additional beneficiaries that are set to be enrolled to the program by January 2013 from the previous 945 indigent families, the CCT program will now benefit 3,171 indigent households in Baguio.

In addition, Bungay said that around 200 more indigent families in Baguio with children who need special protection such as differently-able children, street children and victims of child abuse, are also set to benefit from the CCT under its modified scheme.