The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will distribute cash assistance to 335 sari-sari (retail) store owners in Negros Occidental and Bacolod City, who are affected by the implementation of the mandated price cap on rice, at three venues on Thursday, September 28.
Each recipient will receive P15,000 each for a total of P5.025 million, May Rago-Castillo, DSWD-6 information officer, said Wednesday, September 27.
The distribution centers will be in Bacolod City, Escalante City and Kabankalan City.
The DSWD will distribute P2,730,000 to 182 beneficiaries from central Negros at the Bacolod venue, P1,005,000 to 67 northern Negros beneficiaries in Escalante, and P1,260,000 to 84 southern Negros beneficiaries in Kabankalan, she said.
Bacolod City will have about 42 beneficiaries, Reginald Hudierez, DTI Negros Consumer Protection Unit head, said
The first two payouts were for micro rice retailers who also received P15,000 each. The recipients were compliant with the rice price cap.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. earlier approved the implementation of the mandated P41 price ceiling on regular milled rice and the P45 price cap on well-milled through the issuance of Executive Order No. 39.*