SOCIAL WELFARE

LAWS AND POLICIES

FOR DIFFERENT
POOR
,MARGINALIZED
AND VULNERABLE
SECTORS
“Social protection constitutes policies and programs

that seek to reduce poverty and vulnerability to risks

and enhance the social status and rights of the

marginalized by promoting and protecting

livelihood and employment, protecting against

hazards and sudden loss of income, and improving

people’s capacity to manage risks.”

 Four Social Protection Components
1. Labor Market Interventions- Measures to enhance employment
opportunities, and protect the rights and welfare of workers

2. Social Insurance- Programs to mitigate income risks.

3. Social Welfare- Preventive and developmental interventions to

support the minimum basic needs of the poor.

4. Social Safety Nets- Urgent responses & mechanisms that address

effects of socio-economic shocks, disasters and calamities on
vulnerable groups.
 Clustering of existing government programs dealing with
social welfare/protection into a National Social Welfare
Program

SSS Administrator – Chairman of the Policy Group

DSWD – Coordinator and Secretariat
1. Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino (4Ps) Conditional
Cash Transfer (CCT)
2. Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and
Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS)
3. Self-Employment Assistance Kaunlaran (SEA-K)
4. Tindahan Natin (TN)
5. Family Access Cards (FAC)
6. Food for School (FSP)
7. Emergency Operation Philippines-Assistance to Conflict
Affected Mindanao (EMOP-ACAM)
LAWS
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7277

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE REHABILITATION, SELF-

DEVELOPMENT AND

SELF-RELIANCE OF DISABLED PERSONS AND THEIR

INTEGRATION INTO THE

MAINSTREAM OF SOCIETY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

RA 9257
◦ AN ACT GRANTING ADDITIONAL BENEFITS AND
PRIVILEGES TO SENIOR CITIZENS AMENDING FOR THE
PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7432, OTHERWISE KNOWN
AS ”AN ACT TO MAXIMIZE THE CONTRIBUTION OF SENIOR
CITIZENS TO NATION BUILDING, GRANT BENEFITS AND
SPECIAL PRIVILEGES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.”
◦
 RA 9994

AN ACT GRANTING ADDITIONAL BENEFITS AND

PRIVILEGES TO SENIOR CITIZENS, FURTHER AMENDING
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7432, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE
KNOWN AS “AN ACT TO MAXIMIZE THE CONTRIBUTION OF
SENIOR CITIZENS TO NATION BUILDING, GRANT BENEFITS
AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
RA 8425

◦AN ACT INSTITUTIONALIZING THE SOCIAL

REFORM AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION
PROGRAM, CREATING FOR THE PURPOSE
THE NATIONAL ANTI-POVERTY COMMISSION,
DEFINING ITS POWERS AND FUNCTIONS,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
RA 9262
◦THE ANTI-VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR
CHILDREN ACT OF 2004”