00:00Finally, the DSWD insisted that the assistance for the Kapos Agenda Programme or ACAP is not a pork barrel.
00:07The answer was given by DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian to the request of the retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Capio
00:17who is in charge of the pork barrel, the gas assistance under the ACAP, and the barangay officials who are submitting the list of beneficiaries.
00:28Gatchalian and DSWD social workers are processing the applications for the ACAP and they are also filing them to determine if they are qualified to be beneficiaries.
00:43Finally, anyone can refer a beneficiary and the barangay officials have no role in the assessment of the assistance of the programme.
00:54The original intention of the ACAP was to protect the minimum wage earners and near poor Filipinos from the effects of the rapid inflation that affected their buying power.
01:08As of now, almost 5 million near poor Filipinos have been helped by the ACAP in its first year of implementation.
