More poor children are expected to enjoy their basic rights to education and health as the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program reaches 3 million poor households. From 2.3 million households last year, the program which is also widely known as CCT (conditional cash transfer) is now on its fifth level of expansion and has completed 65% of the 4.6 million poor households identified by the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR).

Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman is pleased to note the result of the study conducted by Dr. Rosario Manasan, senior research fellow of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) where it cited improvement in school enrollment in areas where there are children-beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. The study was published in the November 2011 issue of PIDS Policy Notes.