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The Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations offers the following services:

Medical Assistance covers hospitalization expenses, professional fees, the cost of medicines, and other necessary medical treatments or procedures. This includes implants, common laboratory tests, and diagnostic imaging procedures for any illness or ailment. It also covers the provision of assistive devices such as wheelchairs, crutches, or hearing aids. However, expenses not directly related to medical treatment or aftercare, such as immunization, birthing services (except for deliveries with complications or postpartum complications), the purchase of vitamins, and other dietary supplements, are not covered under this assistance.

Funeral Assistance provides financial support for funeral and other related expenses. This includes costs for transporting the remains of the deceased to their residence or hometown, interment, cremation, burial site expenses, and funeral services in accordance with customary practices, especially among Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs) and Moros. In cases of disaster, calamity, or critical events resulting in multiple casualties within a family, the surviving family member or immediate relative may request outright cash assistance for funeral-related expenses. This assistance may be granted without the need for a Social Case Study Report (SCSR), subject to assessment by the DSWD Social Worker.

Transportation Assistance covers the purchase or payment of transport tickets, whether by air, sea, or land, as well as other travel-related expenses within the Philippines for urgent or crisis-related reasons. This assistance may be provided for purposes such as permanent return to home provinces, seeking medical treatment in another location, attending to emergency family concerns such as death or the care of sick family members, the rescue or retrieval of abused or trafficked relatives, and responding to disaster or calamity situations that require the beneficiary’s immediate presence.

Educational Assistance is designed to help students-in-crisis cover various school-related expenses. These may include school fees such as tuition and miscellaneous charges, school supplies and projects, allowances, and other necessary educational costs. Eligible beneficiaries include breadwinners or working students, orphans or abandoned children now living with relatives, children of solo parents or unemployed parents, children of Overseas Filipinos (OFs) or persons with disabilities-in-crisis, children of rebel returnees or persons deprived of liberty, children living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, and victims of abuse, displacement, or natural and human-induced calamities. This assistance also applies to students enrolled in technical or vocational courses. A maximum of three (3) students per family may avail of this assistance. However, graduate (Master’s), post-graduate (Doctoral), and professional degrees such as Doctor of Medicine and Bachelor of Laws/Juris Doctor, as well as expenses related to review classes and licensure or bar examination registration fees, are not covered.

Food Assistance provides immediate support to meet the basic food and nutritional needs of individuals and families in crisis. It may also be given as outright cash to supplement transportation and medical assistance, particularly when food access is affected due to the crisis situation.

Cash Relief Assistance is an outright cash grant provided to individuals and families currently experiencing extreme crisis or distress. This assistance is available to victims of natural or human-induced disasters and calamities, victims of crimes, survivors of violence against women and children (VAWC), victims of human trafficking, repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), and other individuals or families facing similar urgent crisis situations that require immediate financial support.

DSWD Target Sectors

Family Heads and Other Needy Adults (FHONA)
Individuals who are primary earners or family heads but are unable to provide adequately for their families due to poverty or other adverse conditions.

Women in Especially Difficult Circumstances (WEDC)
Women aged 18–59 facing extreme vulnerabilities, including survivors of sexual and physical abuse, illegal recruitment, prostitution, trafficking, armed conflict, detention, rape, and incest.

Persons with Disabilities (PWD)
Individuals with physical, sensory, intellectual, or mental impairments who experience varying degrees of limitations in performing everyday activities.

Senior Citizens (SC)
Persons aged 60 and above are facing social, economic, or health-related vulnerabilities.

Children in Need of Special Protection (CNSP/CEDC)
Minors requiring special attention and care due to situations such as abuse, neglect, abandonment, exploitation, or being in conflict with the law.

Youth in Need of Special Protection (YNSP)
Individuals 18 years or older who, due to physical or mental disabilities, cannot care for themselves and are vulnerable to abuse, neglect, exploitation, or discrimination.

Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV)
Individuals diagnosed with HIV face health, social stigma, and access-to-care challenges.

CLIENT DISTRIBUTION PER PROVINCE

The grant of financial assistance to qualified individuals can be implemented $) directly by the DSWD through the Crisis lntervention Unit/Sections at the Central office and Field offices (FO), respectively, and Social Welfare and Development Satellite Offices (SWAD Office) nationwide, or (B) through DSWD partners like the Local Movement Units (LGUs) insofar as rice assistance is concerned. 

The Ayuda sa Kapos ang Kita Program Offers the following services:

Food Assistance is provided to meet the need for food and other nutritional requirements for sustenance.

Medical Assistance to cover medical expenses such as payment for hospital bills, cost of medicines, medical treatment or procedures, common laboratory tests, and diagnostic imaging for any illness or condition, including postpartum complications. The assistance does not extend to other healthcare expenses that are unrelated to medical treatment or aftercare. 

Food Assistance is provided to meet the need for food and other nutritional requirements for sustenance. b) Medical assistance - assistance to cover medical expenses such as payment for hospital bills, cost of medicines, medical treatment or procedures, common laboratory tests, and diagnostic imaging for any illness or condition, including postpartum complications. The assistance does not extend to other healthcare expenses that are unrelated to medical treatment or aftercare. 

Cash Relief Assistance is provided for reasons other than for food, medical, or funeral expenses, which upon the assessment of the DSWD social worker, may appear to be directly related to the effects of inflation (i.e., difficulty in paying for house rental, electricity and water expenses, school expenses of their wards or children, purchasing other important needs while recovering from devastation and shocks brought by disaster or disaster-related events, etc.)  - assistance for reasons other than for food, medical, or funeral expenses, which upon the assessment of the DSWD social worker, may appear to be directly related to the effects of inflation (i.e., difficulty in paying for house rental, electricity and water expenses, school expenses of their wards or children, purchasing other important needs while recovering from devastation and shocks brought by disaster or disaster-related events, etc.) 

DSWD Target Sectors

Family Heads and Other Needy Adults (FHONA)
Individuals who are primary earners or family heads but are unable to provide adequately for their families due to poverty or other adverse conditions.

Women in Especially Difficult Circumstances (WEDC)
Women aged 18–59 facing extreme vulnerabilities, including survivors of sexual and physical abuse, illegal recruitment, prostitution, trafficking, armed conflict, detention, rape, and incest.

Persons with Disabilities (PWD)
Individuals with physical, sensory, intellectual, or mental impairments who experience varying degrees of limitations in performing everyday activities.

Senior Citizens (SC)
Persons aged 60 and above are facing social, economic, or health-related vulnerabilities.

Children in Need of Special Protection (CNSP/CEDC)
Minors requiring special attention and care due to situations such as abuse, neglect, abandonment, exploitation, or being in conflict with the law.

Youth in Need of Special Protection (YNSP)
Individuals 18 years or older who, due to physical or mental disabilities, cannot care for themselves and are vulnerable to abuse, neglect, exploitation, or discrimination.

Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV)
Individuals diagnosed with HIV face health, social stigma, and access-to-care challenges.

CLIENT DISTRIBUTION PER PROVINCE