Mobile poor covered by poverty alleviation program

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Mobile poor covered by poverty alleviation program

The government’s flagship poverty alleviation program will now include even families with no permanent residence. Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program has been expanded to cover “ambulant” poor families. The poorest of the poor have been identified through the National Housing Targeting System and according to Lacierda, government is now able to identify even the ambulant residents.

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