00:00Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Rex Gatchalian assured that the assistance to the Kapos Angkita Program or ACAP is not pork barrel
00:09and that the barangay officials have nothing to do with the choice of beneficiaries.
00:14Gatchalian also said that the DSWD social workers are processing the applications and are deciding how much assistance is needed for the qualified beneficiaries.
00:26The ACAP Program helped the minimum wage earners and near-poor Filipinos who are affected by rising food prices and other primary products.
00:36Under the General Appropriations Act of 2024, there is a 26.7 billion Pesos fund for ACAP
00:45which is intended to provide financial assistance to those severely affected by inflation.
00:51Since the first year of implementation, almost 5 million near-poor Filipinos have received assistance from the ACAP Program.
