Neither the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) nor the Social Security System (SSS) has published a payout schedule for the second UPLIFT tranche, and as of the latest available updates, no agency has confirmed that August disbursements have gone out at all.
UPLIFT, or the Unified Package for Livelihoods, Industry, Food, and Transport, is meant to provide 7.5 million poor, near-poor, and low-income households with cash assistance of ₱2,000 a month from July through December, split across three beneficiary groups: 4Ps and Walang Gutom Program members (Group 1), poor and near-poor households identified through the 2024 Community-Based Monitoring System (Group 2), and low-income SSS members (Group 3). Only the July disbursement has been confirmed as paid.
Two separate problems appear to be behind the delay. For Group 3, SSS said that 132,496 members nationwide had their July payout bounce back due to invalid or unenrolled disbursement accounts. Those members had until August 11 to correct their details through the Disbursement Account Enrollment Module (DAEM), after which SSS was set to review the updated records on August 12 and forward them to Land Bank for re-crediting. Neither agency has published results of that review.
For Group 2, the first payout was distributed manually on purpose, so that beneficiaries could register a bank or e-wallet account for the remaining five months. That registration step is still underway. On August 27, Maya said that its teams had been on the ground in Navotas City and Quezon City helping beneficiaries set up and verify accounts ahead of what it called “succeeding digital payouts.”
“For us, the opportunity goes beyond digitizing the payout,” said Angelo Madrid, president of Maya Bank. “When people have access to a digital financial account, they can also start using other services that can help them save, make payments and manage their money better. That is an important part of building financial health over time.”
Of the roughly 1.5 million Group 3 members targeted, DSWD said in early August that more than 978,000 had been paid, leaving an estimated 522,000 without an enrolled disbursement account. That figure has not been updated publicly since.
DSWD has said that no beneficiary will lose money over these delays. Undersecretary Adonis Sulit said that anyone whose first payout only processes in August will still receive the amount allocated for July, a directive he attributed to DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian.
DSWD has also repeated that UPLIFT does not require an application. Beneficiaries are identified from existing government records, and any page or message asking for a processing fee or personal verification code is not legitimate.
What Beneficiaries Can Do While Waiting
Group 3 (SSS-linked) beneficiaries can check whether their disbursement account is properly enrolled through the Disbursement Account Enrollment Module (DAEM) on My.SSS. Members flagged for failed crediting were asked to update their account details there; SSS said it would review corrected records and forward them to Land Bank for re-crediting.
Group 2 beneficiaries can check their registration status through the official UPLIFT G2P website. DSWD has said the app will only show a payout record once the first manual disbursement and digital account setup, done in partnership with providers like Maya, have been completed.
For all beneficiaries, DSWD has repeated that UPLIFT does not require an application, a processing fee, or a verification code sent by text or email. Anyone contacted by a page or number asking for payment or personal information in exchange for “faster processing” is dealing with a scam, not DSWD or SSS.
Beneficiaries who believe they qualify but have not received any payout, and who have confirmed their account details are correct, can raise the issue through their local DSWD field office or SSS branch, since neither agency has published a centralized hotline or online tracker specifically for UPLIFT status disputes.
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