LUCENA, Quezon – If it is to succeed, the government’s food stamp program to help some 750,000 families must be data-driven, independent senatorial candidate Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson said Friday.
Lacson said having a solid database will help make sure that the needy families will be assisted, and that the government’s resources for the program will not be lost to corruption.
“For me, the most important thing is to make sure the program is data-driven before it is fully rolled out, so we won’t waste taxpayers’ money,” he said at the Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial slate’s press conference here.
“We cannot afford to be indiscriminate, blindly giving away food stamps,” he added.
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The government had approved a P74.6-billion food stamp project to give poor Filipinos monthly food stamps.
Lacson said the National ID system, which he authored and sponsored in the Senate, would have been a great help in this program if only it had been implemented properly.
He said that while the National ID law was crafted well, its implementation had been bad.
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Ping Lacson: Food Stamp Program Dapat Data-Driven para Sumakses
LUCENA, Quezon – Para tiyaking tagumpay ang food stamp program ng pamahalaan para tulungan ang 750,000 pamilya, dapat data-driven ito, giit ni independent senatorial candidate Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson nitong Biyernes.
Ani Lacson, ang database ang magtitiyak na ang mga totoong nangangailangan na pamilya ang makakatanggap ng tulong, at hindi masasayang ang pera ng gobyerno sa katiwalian.
“Sa akin, ang pinakaimportante dapat siguraduhing data-driven ang pagpapatupad bago i-rollout kung hindi magsasayang na naman tayo ng pera,” aniya sa pulong pangbalitaan ng Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial slate dito.
“Hindi ang maging indiscriminate na parang bulag bigay na lang ng bigay ng food stamps, sayang,” dagdag niya.
Inaprubahan ng gobyerno ang P74.6-bilyon food stamp project para mabigyan ng food voucher ang mahihirap na pamilyang Pilipino.
Ikinalungkot ni Lacson na ang National ID system, na kanyang inakda at in-sponsor sa Senado, ay nakatulong sa programang ito kung maayos lang sana ang implementasyon nito.
Aniya, bagama’t maganda ang naging batas, nagkaloko-loko ang pagpapatupad nito.
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