The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) received the heftiest increase in accordance with the US' design to keep impoverished countries and peoples dependent on doleouts, and likewise enable the DSWD to play a major role in COIN. On the other hand, government subsidies for farmers and rice consumers as well as other support for agriculture, public colleges and universities, government hospitals and health programs for the poor, housing programs and legal support for migrant workers and other important economic and social needs have all been slashed.
Ang badyet ng Department of Social Welfare and Development ang dinagdagan ng pinakamalaki para umayon sa disenyo ng US na panatilihing nakasalig ang bansa at naghihirap na mamamayan sa mga limos, gayundin para gumanap ito ng malaking papel sa COIN. Binawasan naman nang malaki ang mga subsidyo sa mga magsasaka at kumokonsumo ng bigas at iba pang suporta sa agrikultura, mga pampublikong kolehiyo at unibersidad, mga pampublikong ospital at programang pangkalusugan sa mahihirap, programang pabahay, sa suportang ligal para sa mga migranteng manggagawa at iba pang mahahalagang pangangailangang pangkabuhayan at panlipunan.