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A total of 1,204 local government units (UGL) have completed the distribution of aid from the Social Improvement Program (SAP), the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) reported on Saturday. The Secretary of the Interior, Eduardo Año, urged LGUs to share and replicate best practices in aid distribution once the second tranche of SAP was issued this month, “National and local governments are only facilitators of disbursement and Proper distribution to the poorest of the poor to help mitigate the socio-economic impact of Covid-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), ”said Year in a statement. According to the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the second wave of SAP subsidies can be released on or before May 20 to LGUs that have submitted “full” liquidation reports in the first phase. Year said that the Social Welfare department will carry out the validation to ensure that the recipients of the first tranche are eligible and that there are no cases of duplication, and has assured that it will refer to DSWD complaints against LGUs related to distribution anomalies of SAP.
