MANILA, Philippines ---- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is planning to graduate 500,000 beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) to make room for more beneficiaries, said Edu Punay, the agency's officer-in-charge. The 4Ps is the national government's poverty alleviation program with the goal of giving monthly monetary assistance to the poorest of the poor while breaking the intergenerational poverty cycle, according to the Official Gazette. "The objective is to cleanse, malinis, i-update ang beneficiaries natin, kasi marami po doon ay matatagal na sa programa, so marami tayong naka waitlist dito sa 4Ps natin, kaya na kailangan nati...Keep on reading: DSWD to ‘cleanse’ 4Ps of 500,000 ‘overstaying’ beneficiaries