The 'Walang Gutom 2027' program will require an annual budget of P40 billion to provide the targeted beneficiaries P3,000 worth of food stamps per month.Courtesy of DSWD-X'We will still have discussions with the economic team how to source. There are challenges given the limited resources that the government has),' DSWD Undersecretary Eduardo Punay said at a news forum.'But since we have discussions with development partners such as ADB, there are others, like the World Bank.
Under the program, a beneficiary family will get an electronic benefit transfer card loaded with P3,000-worth of food credits that can be used to purchase select commodities from DSWD-accredited retailers.Punay said the credits are not convertible to cash and cannot be withdrawn from an automated teller machine, like the cash grants under the 'Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program,' a conditional cash transfer program.