Over 445,000 individuals benefited from more than P3-billion grants released from the nationwide implementation of the DOLE Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (DILEEP) in the third quarter of 2025, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported Monday. 

In a statement, the DOLE said that based on the data of the Bureau of Workers with Special Concerns (BWSC) from July to September 2025, a total of 24,484 individuals had been assisted under the DOLE Integrated Livelihood Program (DILP), while 421,059 workers were assisted through the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged Workers (TUPAD) program. 

Under DILP, 14,345 livelihood projects were implemented, primarily in retail and trade —sari-sari stores, rice retailing, and food vending— as well as in services such as carpentry, vulcanizing, and tailoring, across the country.  

Top DILP beneficiaries include self-employed individuals with insufficient income (7,394), marginalized and landless farmers (3,943), parents of child laborers (3,419), ambulant vendors (1,176), and fisherfolk (1,032). 

Further ensuring DILP’s expanded reach to underserved communities, a total of 2,189 among the livelihood beneficiaries and 48,505 among the TUPAD beneficiaries came from the fourth to sixth income-class municipalities. 

The BWSC also reported that for the first nine months of 2025, DILP has supported 1,847,021 individuals nationwide, including 58,835 livelihood beneficiaries who received P1.337 billion in grants, and 1,788,186 TUPAD beneficiaries, amounting to P10.277 billion.  

The DILP echoes President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.'s commitment to poverty alleviation and the empowerment of workers, as the program continues to provide Filipinos with enhanced livelihood and employment opportunities.  

TUPAD Convergence 

DOLE, through its various Regional Offices, is also continuously building convergence partnerships with other government agencies to improve program delivery and boost the impact of its TUPAD Program. 

Through these convergence initiatives, DOLE mobilized its programs to assist key government programs such as the Department of the Interior and Local Government's Hapag sa Barangay Project, Department of Education's Brigada Eskwela, Department of Social Welfare and Development's (DSWD) Project LAWA and BINHI (Local Adaptation to Water Access and Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished), Department of Agriculture's Kadiwa ng Pangulo, Department of Environment and Natural Resources' National Forest Protection Program, as well as national irrigation projects under the National Irrigation Administration.

Additionally, TUPAD extended aid to vulnerable sectors, including Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program "graduates" through the partnership with DSWD, parolees and probationers through joint efforts with the Department of Justice–Parole and Probation Administration, and persons deprived of liberty through its collaboration with the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology.