CCT Program is a Mess

[amingb]

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CCT program is a mess: COA | MALAYA Business Insight News Online

Are U Anti-Arroyo or Anti-Corruption ?

Please read findings sa COA on Aquino administration’s flagship anti-poverty program the CCT ....

[peewee_toot]

nice question amingb. klaro na kaayo nga dumot ra ng kang noy2x towards arroyo. not merely anti corruption. front ra na niya ang "walang kurap kung walang mahiarp.

i wonder kung unsay i-take nga action aning noy2x kabahin ani nga matter...

[amingb]

How about sa mga Pnoy Loyalist ... okay lang sa inyoha ug naay mga mess ani nga administration ?

[eezychair]

This was a program started by the former president and then continued/followed by the current president, holes and all. Talk about competence...

[amingb]

1 year of implementation Billions of Pesos is already at mess .... this is purely corruption ... bali sa ilaha promises nga Tuwid na Daan ...

[eezychair]

And this was handled by whom? One of the hyatt 10, black and white member who so vehemently criticized the previous administration? Unlike others, I will not conclude corruption at this point, but incompetence. 18 months into this administration... what have we got so far? Tuwid na daan lagi, pero walay klaro asa padulong...

[salbahis]

I think CCT was born during GMA's term, but it was implemented by the abNoy's term....

[peewee_toot]

after a few days...

i-cover up na pud ni nga news. or better yet, ipasa na sd ni noy2x sa uban... it's not my fault, it's thier's.

[KlaytoN]

The COA is part of tuwid na daan. They serve as check and balance sa mga government agencies. Kung gamiton nato atoang logic, if Tuwad Na Daan is all about corruption, then COA should have shut their mouth and not report any possible discrepancy..

Actually kung inyo gyung tan-awon ang news report, wala pa man napamatud-an nga naay nawala nga kwarta due to corruption. There may be possible incompetence on the part of DSWD. It still needs clarification from them.

We'll see what happens next. Si Heidi Mendoza ra bahala ana.

[yacky2006]

Naana mani tubag sa DSWD.

DSWD CLARIFIES COA REPORT
Tuesday, 06 December 2011 18:35
Source: DSWD CLARIFIES COA REPORT


Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Juliano Soliman assured the public that the DSWD has already put in place stronger mechanisms to ensure the smooth implementation of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) after receiving the findings and recommendations of the Commission on Audit (COA) on the program.

At the same time, Secretary Soliman appealed for fairness in reporting saying that the report currently circulating in the media does not reflect the clarifications and actions taken by the Department during the exit conference and subsequent meetings with the officials of COA. The report being circulated is based on the Annual Audit Report for the year ended December 31, 2010 which contains the findings and recommendations by COA without reflecting the actions taken by the Department.

The Department has adopted various measures to improve the implementation of the CCT program. Apart from continuously reviewing and improving policies and systems, the DSWD adopted key strategic measures to ensure transparency and judicious management of funds:

• to improve governance, a National Advisory Committee composed of DSWD, Landbank, DepEd, DOH, DILG, NAPC, other government agencies was created;

• the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the partnership between the Land Bank and DSWD was also improved to ensure faster delivery of grants to the beneficiaries and to ensure reconciliation/liquidation of fund releases five days after each pay-out period;
• the compliance verification system has been strengthened to ensure that beneficiaries comply with the conditions of the program such as attendance in schools, availment of health services and attendance in family development sessions;
• the Department has partnered with 279 civil society organizations to help monitor implementation issues and service delivery; and
• feedback and grievance redress mechanisms were strengthened.

Selection of Poor Households

Poor households are selected using the National Household Targeting System which utilizes the proxy means test (PMT). PMT is a statistical model that estimates the income per capita of households based on proxy means variable such as those from the 2003 Family Income Expenditure Survey (FIES) and Labor Force Survey, household composition and size, housing conditions, tenure status, ownership or assets, education and occupation of household members, access to services and regional variable. PMT is found to be the most appropriate targeting mechanism for developing countries such as the Philippines where there is a large informal labor sector and no nationally aggregated database available to cross check incomes and assets.

Inclusion /exclusion errors

Secretary Soliman said that the reported inclusion/exclusion errors in the identification of CCT beneficiaries are being already addressed by the Pantawid Pamilya National Program Monitoring Office (NPMO) - Grievance Redress System (GRS). The system allows complaints from excluded or delisted households, or the public regarding the inclusion of non-poor individuals to the program. Complaints desks are also set-up during community assemblies. Re-assessment and validation surveys are also being done by the NHTS-PR to connect inclusion and exclusion errors in the identification of beneficiaries. This in an on-going process.
As of November 2011, some 171,947 households have already been delisted from the program. This figure includes those households who have been delisted under the Grievance Redress System such as those who have voluntarily waived from the program, those validated to have engaged in fraudulent acts, those validated as inclusion errors and those also found to have been ineligible for the program due to regular income/financial capacity.

Double Entries

The discrepancies in the entries of the names of grantees in the database are the results of the inadvertent collection of data during initial household enumeration and survey done by the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) and adopted by the Pantawid Pamilya. Despite double entries, the beneficiaries are paid only once. The idle funds generated from the double entries have been deposited back to the Bureau of Treasury.
The Payroll System for the Pantawid Pamilya cash grant distribution has likewise been enhanced to hasten generation of data, avert data duplication and strengthen accountability and security. The System, through its transaction idetification feature, can readily show payroll data disaggregated by region, implementation set, payment mode, month of payment, etc. Also, approval levels have been added to the System ensuring accountability and security. As of November 30, 2011, a total of 13,890 households found with duplicates were already delisted from the System.
Currently, the Beneficiary Update System (BUS) is updating the profiles of the beneficiaries based on their existing status and civil documents to correct loopholes.
On the P363 million funds transferred to Landbank, the COA has corrected this findings to reflect only a total of P138 million. This has also been returned to the Bureau of Treasury.

Grants released to non-complying beneficiaries

On the P192.3 million allegedly paid without CVS, it may be stressed that before the automated CVS, the program has a working CVS system through the use of family booklet with school principals and health personnel documenting the compliance and the improvised system of monitoring compliance system through attendance sheet type used by school principals and health workers.


Overpayment of educational grants
On the P9.9 million alleged overpayment for educational assistance, the amount represents children enrolled in the program whose age were 14 years at the start of the school year but turned 15 during the school year. Per existing policy, these children shall be paid assistance for the remaining school year only. For children enrolled but not attending school, they are paid the initial grant to encourage them to attend school but succeeding payments shall be based on compliance upon verification.

Unliquidated Amount
The P6.64 billion claimed by the COA as unliquidated funds includes P3 billion undisbursed funds as of December 31,2010. Hence only P3.6 Billion represents unliquidated funds as of December 31,2010. As of December 5, 2011, some P2.5 Billion has already been liquidated. The balance of P1 Billion is awaiting liquidation reports from Landbank. The P3 Billion undisbursed funds as of December 31,2010 has already been disbursed in 2011 for beneficiaries paid through over the counter.

Centralized Disbursement
The management of cash grants is centralized at DSWD-Central Office. However, the DSWD decentralized the preparation of liquidation reports to the Regional Offices substantially improving the timeliness of recording the liquidation in the books of accounts of DSWD Central Office.
Sec. Soliman explained that DSWD considers COA an ally in ensuring that government funds are handled properly and managed judiciously.

“We enjoy a good partnership with COA,” says the DSWD Secretary.

“In fact, to further clarify issues and strengthen program implementation, we recently had a workshop with COA regional directors and field auditors. This served as a venue for us to clarify issues and better appreciate the core poverty reduction programs that the DSWD is implementing.” ### (DSWD-Social Marketing Service) December 6, 2011.