Gov’t cash grantees using funds for vices

By Peter A. Balocnit

TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Some beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer (CCT) have been usingthe funds for vices like gambling and drinking, Social Welfare  officials here bared, urging recipients to use the subsidy for basic needs of their families.

           

Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer DignaDalutag said families were told during house visits by the provincial advisory committee to refrain from spending on unnecessary items but  instead  use the money on food, school supplies and medicines.

            She said there were barangays that enacted ordinances prohibiting gambling and penalizing drunkenness which helped government in its advocacy against illegal vices.

            Maya Apalias, provincial officer of the project for Kalinga,  said she will share these good practices to other provincial links in the Cordillera Administrative Region for them to replicate it in their areas.

            “Cordillerans by nature are law abiding citizens, however there are some CCT beneficiaries who are easily lured to vices because of the cash they are holding.”