Expanded Students Grant-In-Aid Program for Poverty Alleviation (ESGP-PA)

In this joint memorandum circular from CHED, DBM, DSWD, DOLE and SUCs we are allotted 356 slots from DSWD listings of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4P’s) beneficiaries who are allotted full tuition/school fees (allotment is P10,000 per student per semester, excess thereof is advised to be utilized for learning support to these students as well as their summer classes and related academic expenses), P2,500 book allowance every semester, P3,500 monthly allowance for 10 months. With this program, the university gets P21M in the GAA. There is an add-on 3% for administrative costing and there is liberty in its utilization for equipment and related office materials as well as Project Management Office (PMO) and Project technical staff. To date, we have not exhausted this fund even from its first year of implementation (2014), the balance runs to an approximate of P2M.

When a student grantee incurs failure in more than 2 subjects, despite tutorials and intervention programs, the student’s scholarship will be differed and the matter shall be reported to DSWD for replacement.