THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is seeking an increase in its 2025 budget to hire more social workers to effectively deliver aid programs.

During the hearing of the agency's budget for 2025 on Wednesday, Social Welfare Secretary Rexlon Gatchalian described to Deputy Majority Leader Lianda Bolilia the ways to digitize the identification of beneficiaries.

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