EXPENDITURE

PROGRAM FOR
THE POOR
Reporter: Haydie M. Gautani
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Topics
⊸ Welfare spending
⊸ Aid to Families with dependent
children
⊸ Supplemental security income
⊸ Medicaid
⊸ Food stamp and child nutrition
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Welfare
is a type of government support
intended to ensure that members of a
society can meet basic human needs
 such as food and shelter.

⊸ Social Security
⊸ Social Insurance
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Welfare Program (Federal System)

⊸ Aid to families with dependent children
⊸ Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
⊸ Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
⊸ Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
⊸ Food Stamps/Snap
⊸ Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women,
Infants and Children (WIC)
⊸ Medicaid and Children Health Insurance Program
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Social Protection Programs in the Philippines
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Social Protection
⊸ ”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”.
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Importance of Social Protection

⊸ Once of the main economic
justifications for social protection is
to redistribute income or for equity.
⊸ In a developing country such as the
Philippines a comprehensive and
well-designed social protection
system is needed.
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4 Main Component
of Social Protection
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Social Protection Program in the

Philippines
1. Social Insurance
⊸ Are contributory programs that seek to mitigate income
risks by pooling resources and spreading risks across time
and income classes
⊸ Beneficiaries pay a premium over a given period to cover or
protect them from loss of illness, injury, disability,
retrenchment, harvest failure, maternity or old age

Examples: GSIS/SSS/Philhealth
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Social Protection Program in the

Philippines
Labor Market Interventions
⊸ are government measures that enhance employment
opportunities in the country and advance Filipino workers
rights and welfare.
⊸ the goal is to address the risk of underemployment , and loss
of income in the country

Examples: Skills development training; labor and trade policies, and

agricultural support; Special employment program for students;
Assistance to displaced workers (DOLE-AMP)
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Social Protection Program in the

Philippines
Social Welfare
⊸ Involves preventive and developmental interventions that
seek to support the minimum basic requirements of the poor
and reduce risks associated with unemployment,
resettlement, marginalization, illness and disability, old age
and loss of family care
⊸ Are usually direct assistance in the form of cash or in-kind
transfers to the poorest and marginalized groups

Example: cash transfers such as 4Ps

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Social Protection Program in the

Philippines
Social Safety Net
⊸ Are contributory programs, stop-gap mechanisms or urgent
responses that address effects of economic shocks, disaster
and calamities on specific vulnerable groups
⊸ Are measures that target groups with the specific objective
of providing relief and transition

Examples: emergency assistance; price subsidies; employment

programs; restraining programs and emergency loans; SocPen
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Table 1. Social Protection Programs by Source

of Financing
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Table 2. Philippine social protection system versus

Philippine national government social
protection expenditures
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Table 3. National Government Social Protection Programs
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Philippine Social Protection

Expenditure Trends, 2009-2017
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MTPPAN Core Programs

⊸ Home
⊸ School
⊸ Community Food production
⊸ Food fortification
⊸ Food assistance
⊸ Micronutrient supplementation
⊸ Nutrient Education
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General Findings and Next Steps

⊸ There is a need to continuously improve the design of government
programs especially when it comes to programs that redistribute income to
a targeted group. •
⊸ Furthermore, improving the targeting system is critical in improving the
design of a program. In any public policy program, there is always the risk
of an eligible person being excluded or including someone who is not the
intended beneficiary.
⊸ The redesign of a program could also lead to the consolidation or
refocusing of programs within or across agencies with similar
functions/objectives.
⊸ To improve both design and targeting, there is the need to monitor and
evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the program. This must be
evidence-based to be able to intelligently assess future policy direction. •
The availability of timely and consistent data evidence-based reforms.
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Thanks!