SISFOH: Complete Guide to Socioeconomic Classification and Access to Social Programs in Peru

2024-04-20 04:32:47

In the following note you can consult all the socioeconomic information of Peruvian households that is regulated under the intersectoral and intergovernmental system created almost 20 years ago with the purpose of providing for the various social programs promoted by the Government. Annually, the Household Targeting System (SISFOH) carries out exhaustive work based on the set of criteria, rules or procedures capable of recognizing the conditions of each family and thus contribute to the identification of people or population groups in situations of poverty, vulnerability or exclusion. In that sense, and according to your interest, know how to check if you are part of the SISFOH database, what its importance is and further details according to the General Household Register (PGH).

HOW CAN I CHECK IF MY HOUSEHOLD IS CLASSIFIED AS POOR IN SISFOH?

The Government, through the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (Midis), seeks to improve the quality of life of the Peruvian population in situations of vulnerability and poverty, by granting, for example, bonuses to beneficiaries who are classified in the SISFOHintersectoral and intergovernmental system created on December 20, 2004.

With the purpose of providing socioeconomic information to Targeted Public Interventions for the identification of potential users, more than 23 years ago, and through Ministerial Resolution No. 399the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) resolved to create it, also taking into account the need to provide information focused on any policy that allows all households in the country to be classified socioeconomically.

According to the above, it is worth highlighting that there are families or so-called heads of household who, for example, when they try to find out the requirements to participate in Juntos or Pensión 65, among others, receive the response that they are not part of the SISFOH or they need to update it, and it is at that moment that they want to carry out the relevant query made available to the user in order to also verify if it appears as poor, extremely poor or not poor.

Enter CHECK MY HOME – MIDISand follow the following step by step to the letter:

1- Make a query by choosing Document Type and entering the corresponding number

2- Enter the verification number that appears in the box

3- Clic a “Consult”

4- Complete the requested fields such as your child’s date of birth, UBIGEO number in DNI

5- Finally, all the information regarding your Socioeconomic Classification (CSE) level should appear in SISFOH.

Once you receive the data from the Midis, You will be able to certify the social condition or status of your family to know if you are eligible and thus participate in the subsidiary processes that the Government regularly activates.

HOW YOU SHOULD DO TO OBTAIN YOUR SISFOH OR UPDATE IT BASED ON THE CSE

• Go to the Local Registration Unit (ULE) of the municipality where your home is located
• Present the corresponding documentation such as DNI or immigration card of the members of the household plus an electric energy service receipt, and then fill out the S100 form.
• After completing this procedure, ULE staff will visit your home to collect information regarding the household and its members, and add it to the Single Socioeconomic File (FSU).
• After entering and processing said information, your municipality will send it to Midis to determine or update the CSE as non-poor, poor or extreme poor in the PGH.
• Finally, the Midis will be responsible for sending the CSE information of the households registered in the PGH to the entities that implement the Targeted Public Interventions (IPF), according to current regulations.

WHAT IS FOCUSING ACCORDING TO THE SISFOH

The set of rules and instruments that allow identifying people or population groups in situations of vulnerability or exclusion, is determined as targetingprocess by which public resources are directed towards a certain group of recipients generally selected according to the poverty criterion, indicates the SISFOH through the Midis.

According to information shared by the intersectoral and intergovernmental system, the potential beneficiaries of interventions to be provided by social programs and State subsidies make up the PGH, which at the same time seeks the “efficient allocation of public resources from the IPFs defined within the framework of social policy, which contribute to closing gaps related to the problems or shortcomings that these interventions seek to solve”.

SISFOH: WHAT CRITERIA DO YOU TAKE INTO ACCOUNT FOR THE CLASSIFICATION?

• Non-poor household: can cover the average amount of the basic family basket.
• Poor household: cannot cover the average amount of the basic family basket.
• Extremely poor household: it cannot cover the per capita amount necessary to survive.

SISFOH: WHAT ARE THE CURRENT SOCIAL PROGRAMS THAT I CAN ACCESS IF MY HOUSEHOLD IS CONSIDERED AS POOR OR EXTREME POOR?

• National Direct Support Program for the Poorest – JUNTOS
• Scholarship 18 of the National Scholarship and Educational Credit Program – PRONABE
• Comprehensive Health Insurance SIS (SIS) – Free SIS
• Peru works
• Energy Social Inclusion Fund (FISE)
• Pension for severe disability
• Protection Bonus for Homes Vulnerable to Seismic Risks (My Home)

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